I have become a tentative believer in chiropractic, and even as I have done so, I have wondered if it could do wonders for seniors. Is chiropractic a hidden key to their health? Flood them with chiropractic care, and happiness and health in old age might be significantly increased.
We have a crisis in our care of seniors. In the name of comfort care, we place them on opioids, which can cause addiction, depression, psychosis, and hallucinations. If this is our idea of comfort, we are mistaken. If this is our idea of letting them die in peace, we haven't thought things through very well.
So, what is the alternative? If we don't want them on opioids, what can we offer them?
Chiropractic to the rescue.
If we can take them out of their pain, they don't need opioids. If much of the pain can be eliminated through chiropractic adjustments, doesn't that make chiropractic care a better alternative than opioids? I suggest we try the benefits of chiropractic. We should encourage it, and offer it through our insurance policies. Except for cases when we can see it is not a fit, every senior should have chiropractic care available to them.
If chiropractic care does work -- and it am tending to think it does -- perhaps as much as anyone, seniors can benefit from it. It is they, more than any other group, perhaps, that suffer from back problems. It is they, as much as any other group, perhaps, that suffer from chronic pain.
We owe it to ourselves, and to the society we live in, to try this out. If we flood our seniors with chiropractic care, if we bring it into every senior living center, and reach it into every home where there is an elderly person, we will soon know whether it is of benefit.
We should do this thing. We should look into everything we can to make the end-of-life experience a better experience, and this could be one of them.
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