Dr. Zhang's team examined pre/post changes following a single chiropractic adjustment in 625 patients from 96 offices. His team also followed 132 patients for a four-week period. They found that not only did the patients report decreased pain as indicated by the Visual Analog Scale (VAS), but improved function of the autonomic nervous system. According to the study, "It was concluded that the multi clinic study of chiropractic care on the heart rate variability has demonstrated consistent changes in HRV and VAS in patients who participated in this study. The decreased heart rate and increased total power from the HRV analysis indicated a healthy autonomic nervous system balance after correction of vertebral subluxation."

What do these three studies have to do with your practice and your future? The answer is "everything." Heath care in the United States currently consumes about one in every six dollars spent in the United States, and will consume an estimated one in every five dollars by the year 2015. It is projected that by the end of the next decade, the government will be paying about half of the nation's medical costs. A report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated that both government and private spending for health care will average $12,320 per person in 2015, almost double the 2005 figure of $6,683. The nation's health care bill could total more than $4 trillion in ten years. (U.S. Health Care Bill by 2015: $4 Trillion. abcnews.com. 2/22/06).

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