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Description

COMTMIG indicates whether the person had used chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation to treat migraine and severe headache. This question was asked of sample adults who had seen a practitioner for chiropractic care (2002) or for either chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation (2007) in the past 12 months (COMYR) and had used such therapy to treat a specific health problem or condition (COMTREAT). The same conditions applied to sample children, who were only asked this question in 2007.

Related Variables

Migraine and severe headache was one of 31 possible specific conditions that both sample adults and sample children could report treating with chiropractic care (2002) or with either chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation (2007). The other such conditions are:

• Attention Deficit Disorder (COMTADD, 2007 only)

• anxiety (COMTANX, 2007 only)

• arthritis (COMTARTH, 2007 only)

• asthma (COMTASTH)

• autism (COMTAUT, 2007 only)

• cancer (COMTCANC)

• head or chest cold (COMTCOLD)

• constipation needing medication (COMTCONST, 2007 only)

• depression (COMTDEPRES, 2007 only)

• diabetes (COMTDIAB)

• allergy to food (COMTFALL)

• influenza or pneumonia (COMTFLU, 2007 only)

• gum disease (COMTGUM, 2007 only)

• hay fever (COMTHAY)

• hearing problem (COMTHEAR)

• insomnia (COMTINSOM)

• menstrual problems (COMTMENST)

• other developmental problem (COMTODD)

• other lung or breathing problem (COMTOLUNG)

• other musculoskeletal problem (COMTOMUSC, 2007 only)

• phobias (COMTPHOBIA, 2007 only)

• acid reflux (COMTREFLUX, 2007 only)

• regular headaches (COMTREGHEAD, 2007 only)

• mental retardation (COMTRETARD)

• seizures (COMTSEIZ)

• sinusitis (COMTSINUS)

• urinary problem (COMTURIN)

• vision problem (COMTVISION)

• weight problem (COMTWEIGHT)

• other (COMTOTH1)

Additionally, there are 72 other conditions sample adults only could report treating with chiropractor, and 28 other conditions that could be reported for sample children only. For the full list of conditions, see COMTREAT.

Chiropractor is one of 16 modalities of alternative medicine that were included in the 2002 and 2007 Alternative Health Supplements. Persons could report treating migraine and severe headache by any of those methods, although 3 of the methods are not available as treatments for specific health problems in both years. Hypnosis and movement techniques were included as treatments for specific health problems in the 2007 survey only. See HYPYR and MOVALEXYR for more information. Conversely, prayer was included as a treatment for specific health problems in the 2002 survey only, when just sample adults were asked about their use of alternative and complementary medicine. See PRASELFEV for more information. Analysts interested in the treatment of migraine and severe headache by other alternative therapies should see COMYR for the full list of alternative medicine treatments and a summary of other chiropractor-related questions, including definitions.

Comparability

Because of a change in question wording between 2002 and 2007, researchers should exercise caution when analyzing this variable over time. In 2002 the variables in the "chiropractic" group covered "chiropractic care" only, while those in 2007 covered "chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation."

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Availability

• 2002, 2007

Weights

• 2002, 2007 : SAMPWEIGHT