Chiropractic care has been evaluated extensively over the past fifty years to determine it's safety and effectiveness for spinal conditions. Recently, an American study funded by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, found Chiropractic care of acute low back pain to be safe, more effective than pharmaceutical therapies or surgery, and less costly than drugs or surgery.

A comprehensive British study, published in the British Medical Journal in 1990, which compared Chiropractic to hospital outpatient treatment, concluded that "...Chiropractic is a very effective treatment, more effective than conventional hospital out-patient treatment for low back pain, particularly in patients who had back pain in the past and who got severe problems... One of the unexpected findings was that the treatment differences -- the benefit of Chiropractic over hospital treatment -- actually persists for the whole of that three-year period... it looks as though the treatment that Chiropractors give does something that results in a very long-term benefit."

While most research has focused on effectiveness as it relates to low back pain, much of the current research has also begun to point to a myriad of other health benefits.

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