National Chiropractic Health Month

NCHM 2025 focuses on the benefits of starting with a non-drug approach to pain management.

Has back pain kept you from being active, getting healthier and enjoying life? Chiropractic’s non-drug approach to common musculoskeletal conditions such as back, neck, and joint pain and tension headaches can help you start your journey back to health and activity by making it easier to get moving.

Getting started with chiropractic, compared with starting with other types of treatments for back pain, may also help you reduce or avoid the need for prescription pain medications down the line. Research shows that people who start with chiropractic treatment for back pain have a significantly lower risk of requiring an opioid prescription later.

This October, during National Chiropractic Health Month (NCHM), doctors of chiropractic nationwide will raise awareness of how taking a non-drug approach to pain initially may help you to avoid prescriptions later and get you moving in the right direction, back to your life and the activities that matter most.

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NCHM Proclamation Gallery

Every year during National Chiropractic Health Month, doctors of chiropractic and students will work with their state, city and/or local governments to pass proclamations declaring October as Chiropractic Health Month. It’s just one way the profession raises public awareness of the benefits of chiropractic care and its non-drug approach to pain management.