Welcome to Research & Clinical Science (RCS)

RCS is a private sector research program with the mission to educate, train and equip chiropractors with the latest objective health outcomes assessment tools and procedures, and link participants through the largest population, web-based health outcomes project in the history of the profession.

The data is collected from the usual procedures utilized by the doctor, and doesn’t require a specific technique or new protocol. The data is used as the basis for the largest ongoing, population-based, longitudinal cohort of chiropractic patients ever studied, analyzed and submitted to scientific, evidence-based, peer-reviewed research journals.

This research will seek to validate the profession and position chiropractic as a scientific, evidence-based wellness practice. The more research, the greater the chance the profession will have of gaining a higher degree of respect and acceptance in the health care marketplace and the scientific community.

Using RCS, doctors of chiropractic throughout the world recruit volunteers to participate in the research program. Volunteers receive a chiropractic evaluation and report of findings, as well as their own customized "Vitality Wellness Index" which compares their level of four major components of overall wellness (physical health; emotional well-being, stress level, and life enjoyment level) to the general population.