{"id":333,"date":"2014-12-10T04:21:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T04:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/?page_id=333"},"modified":"2015-04-28T21:23:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T21:23:53","slug":"care-seniors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/care-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Care for Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb_row wf-container \">\n\t<div class=\"wf-cell wf-span-12 wpb_column column_container \">\n\t\t\t\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element  wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_left-to-right\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-314 size-medium\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODdhAQABAPAAAP\/\/\/wAAACwAAAAAAQABAEACAkQBADs=\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/happy_elderly_couple_americare-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"elderly_couple_americare\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/happy_elderly_couple_americare-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/happy_elderly_couple_americare.jpg 538w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-314 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/happy_elderly_couple_americare-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"elderly_couple_americare\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/happy_elderly_couple_americare-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/happy_elderly_couple_americare.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript>The general population is going to chiropractors in record numbers. Seniors, the fastest segment of the population is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent August 24 th 1999 article in USA Today, more than 80% of seniors age 65 or greater are aware of what the article termed alternative medicine. This awareness has lead to a fairly fast growing utilization of these services. The breakdown for usage of chiropractic and other non-medical health care is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Chiropractic lead the way with a utilization of 32%, second was massage therapy at 16%, followed by acupuncture 9%, homeopathy at 4%, naturopathy 3% and Chinese medicine 3%.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study published in Topics in Clinical Chiropractic of a randomized clinical trial showed data that found chiropractic geriatric patients were <em>\u201cless likely to have been hospitalized, less likely to have used a nursing home, more likely to report a better health status, more likely to exercise vigorously, and more likely to be mobile in the community.\u201d<\/em>\n\t\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><br \/>\n<!--Start of Zopim Live Chat Script--><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nwindow.$zopim||(function(d,s){var z=$zopim=function(c){z._.push(c)},$=z.s=\nd.createElement(s),e=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];z.set=function(o){z.set.\n_.push(o)};z._=[];z.set._=[];$.async=!0;$.setAttribute(\"charset\",\"utf-8\");\n$.src=\"\/\/v2.zopim.com\/?2ydwuCn6fp5cn3lEopaBs2gUuhe4C4ac\";z.t=+new Date;$.\ntype=\"text\/javascript\";e.parentNode.insertBefore($,e)})(document,\"script\");\n<\/script><br \/>\n<!--End of Zopim Live Chat Script--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The general population is going to chiropractors in record numbers. Seniors, the fastest segment of the population is no exception. According to a recent August 24 th 1999 article in USA Today, more than 80% of seniors age 65 or greater are aware of what the article termed alternative medicine. This awareness has lead to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiropractorbackpain.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}