New study from the prestigious Spine Journal on active military personnel showed that chiropractic manipulation (adjustments) in conjunction with standard medical care offers a significant advantage for decreasing pain and improving physical functioning when compared to standard care alone, for men and women between the ages of 18-35 with acute low back pain.

Adding chiropractic manipulative therapy to standard medical care for patients with acute low back pain: the results of a pragmatic randomized comparative effectiveness study.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23060056

High rate of MRI abnormalities in non painful knees

Yet another in a long list of studies showing high rates of MRI pathological/abnormal joint findings on people with no pain. This study from the "British Medical Journal found at least one abnormality in 86-88% of the group with no knee pain! Is this surprising to anyone?

http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e5339

Chiropractic care results in significantly reduced surgery rate in injured workers

Here is a recent study from Spine Journal on surgery rates for 1885 injured workers. It showed that even after adjustment for important variables, 42.7% of the patients that first saw a surgeon received surgery, compared to only 1.5% who first saw a chiropractor!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23238486

After dozens of people dying from meningitis due to the contaminated spinal epidural injections, many of the survivors are unfortunately now getting serious localized spinal infections that are often hard to detect until very progressed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/health/dangerous-abscesses-add-to-tainted-drugs-threat.html?hp&_r=2&