Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

The Curse of Chiropractic...

7 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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A recorded talk by Jeff Langmaid (YouTube video "The Curse of Chiropractic...") arguing that chiropractic care is highly effective but faces challenges: practitioners may become complacent, common back pain often resists clear diagnosis, and high rates of spinal surgery occur despite unclear pain generators. The speaker states roughly one million spinal surgeries occur annually and claims 80–90% of those surgeries are performed when the pain generator cannot be identified.

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About one million per year.

About 80–90%.

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I hope that today with some of the studies that we've highlighted this starts to pique your interest. No, you don't need to go to PubMed on Monday and start doing research but you should appreciate the impact of what you do because I know showing up and delivering care, as passionate as we are and as excited as we can be when we see somebody get up and move better when we see those changes, I'll tell you it's like the curse of chiropractic is that it works so well. We see people come in and we expect them to move better and feel better. We get bored with a challenge of back pain that's causing hundreds of deaths per day and people going down. I didn't have it in this slide but if anybody guesses how many spinal surgeries are performed each and every year, it's about a million per year currently. A million per year. 80 to 90% of those that can't identify the pain generation.