Narrative: This paper is a short, descriptive report of conventional Chiropractic practice in India. It is the first data reported to describe the Case-Mix of Chiropractic practice in India. It is noted that the data sets are drawn from 21,386 patients and are not analyses of ‘patient visits’, but of n="21,396" individual patients. This renders the number of patients documented in this report to be a very large sample.
In brief the most numerous presentation was LBP with male predominance. The male dominance held for all other conditions to a varying and lesser degree, and only reached parity with females at 50/50 for ‘knee pain’.
An interesting finding is a greatly increased number of presentations due to seasonal conditions, peaking in June.
This report sets the baseline for future reports of Chiropractic practice throughout India and carries value to inform the distribution of learning objects in India’s first formal program of Chiropractic education, commencing 2026.
Author Keywords: Chiropractic; India; Case-Mix; Conventional Chiropractic; education; regulation.
Corresponding Author: Jayul Doshi—ais@drspine.in
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