Chiropractors care for patients with Musculoskeletal and Back Conditions, which addresses the following HP 2010 Goals:
• Prevent illness and disability related to arthritis, osteoporosis, and chronic back conditions.
• Reduce the overall number of cases of osteoporosis from 10 percent to 8 percent by 2010.
• Reduce the proportion of adults aged 65 and older who are hospitalized for vertebral fractures associated with osteoporosis from 17.5 per 10,000 to 14 per 10,000 by 2010.

Chiropractors care about overall Health and Wellness, which addresses the following HP 2010 Goals:
 • To increase the proportion of older adults who have participated during the preceding year in at least one organized health promotion activity.
• Reduce the proportion of adults who are obese.
• Reduce cigarette smoking by adults.
• Increase smoking cessation attempts by adults.

Chiropractors can talk to their patients about: Injury Prevention, which addresses the following HP 2010 Goals:
• Increase use of safety belts to 92 percent of the total population.
• Reduce deaths from falls to 2.3 deaths per 100,000 population.
• Reduce hip fractures among older adults to 491.0 fractures per 100,000 females aged 65 years and older and to 450.5 fractures per 100,000 males aged 65 years and older.

Chiropractors can recommend and encourage: Physical Activity, which addresses the following HP 2010 Goals
•Decrease the proportion of adults who engage in no leisure-time physical activity from 40 percent to 20 percent in 2010.
• Increase the proportion of adults who engage regularly, preferably daily, in moderate physical activity for at least 30 minutes per day from 15 percent to 30 percent by 2010.
• Increase the proportion of adults who engage in vigorous physical activity that promotes cardiorespiratory fitness three or more days per week for 20 or more minutes per occasion from 23 percent to 30 percent by 2010.
• Increase the proportion of adults who perform physical activities that enhance and maintain muscular strength and endurance from 18 percent to 30 percent by 2010. • Increase the proportion of adults who perform physical activities that enhance and maintain flexibility from 30 percent to 43 percent.

Chiropractors can talk to their patients about: Nutrition, which addresses the following HP 2010 Goals:
• Increase the proportion of physician office visits made by patients with a diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, diabetes or hyperlipidemia that include counseling or education related to diet and nutrition from 42 percent to 75 percent in 2010.
• Increase the proportion of people aged 2 years and older who consume at least three daily servings of vegetables, with at least one third being dark green or deep yellow vegetables, from 3 percent to 50 percent by 2010.
• Increase the proportion of people aged 2 years and older who consume no more than 30 percent of calories from fat from 33 percent to 75 percent in 2010.
• Increase the proportion of people aged 2 years and older who meet dietary recommendations for calcium from 46 percent to 75 percent in 2010.