A study in the May 2006 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics found that patients under chiropractic care improved the relative times it took to perform movements in a controlled test (movement times).
The study involved ten patients who received chiropractic adjustments and another control group of people who did not receive adjustments.
Movement time was measured on a computer screen with the subjects moving a cursor onto a randomly moving target of various sizes.
Every one of the subjects under chiropractic care had significantly improved movement times. Only one person in the control group not receiving chiropractic care showed improvement.
The chiropractic patients showed and average improvement of 9.2% while the non-chiropractic subjects averaged an improvement of only 1.7%.
The researchers concluded, “This study demonstrated a significant improvement in movement time with chiropractic care.” These results suggest that spinal adjustments may influence motor behavior.
While this study applies to our everyday lives, it also bodes well for people involved in sports and/or any other activity that requires high levels of coordinated performance.
