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Here’s why:

Adding chiropractic manipulative therapy to standard medical care for patients with acute low back pain: results of a pragmatic randomized comparative effectiveness study.

Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2013 Apr 15;38(8):627-34.

Conclusion: The results of this trial suggest that chiropractic manipulative therapy (CMT) in conjunction with standard medical care (SMC) offers a significant advantage for decreasing pain and improving physical functioning when compared with only standard care, for men and women between 18 and 35 years of age with acute low back pain (LBP).

The Chiropractic Hospital-based Interventions Research Outcomes (CHIRO) study: a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines in the medical and chiropractic management of patients with acute mechanical low back pain.

Spine J. 2010 Dec;10(12):1055-64.

Conclusion: This is the first reported randomized controlled trial comparing full clinical practice guidelines-based treatment, including spinal manipulative therapy administered by chiropractors, to family physician-directed usual care (UC) in the treatment of patients with acute mechanical low back pain (AM-LBP). Compared to family physician-directed UC, full clinical practice guidelines-based treatment including chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy is associated with significantly greater improvement in condition-specific functioning.

Pain, disability, and satisfaction outcomes and predictors of outcomes: A practice-based study of chronic low back pain patients attending primary care and chiropractic physicians.

JMPT. 2001 Sep; Vol. 24, Issue 7, Pg. 433–439

Conclusion: Chiropractic care compared favorably to medical care with respect to long-term pain and disability outcomes. Further study is required to explore the advantage seen for chiropractic care in patients with leg pain below the knee and in the area of patient satisfaction. Identification of patient and treatment characteristics associated with better or worse outcomes may foster changes in physicians' practice activities that better serve these patients' needs.

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Chiropractic Care: A Safe, Effective Treatment for Neck, Mid-back and Lower Back Pain

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-  Headache Pain

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Americans' Perceptions of Chiropractic

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The second "Gallup-Palmer College of Chiropractic Annual Report: Americans'Perceptions of Chiropractic," validates chiropractic as a valuable option for neck and back pain. 

Conditions Treated by a Chiropractor Near Me

“Conservative Care First” is more important today than ever in facing our nation’s healthcare challenges

Chiropractic physicians are the highest-rated healthcare practitioners for low-back pain treatments with their patient-centered, whole-person approach that provides greater interaction and communication for appropriate diagnosis and developing more cost-effective treatment planning.

 

October is National Chiropractic Health Month

Good News Regarding Back Pain

Eugene Carragee, MD (et al), Chief of the Surgical Division at Stanford Hospital and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center published the findings of a five year observational study in the Nov-Dec 2006 edition of The Spine Journal. The study involved 200 subjects who had no lifetime history of Low Back Pain (LBP) but were at high risk for new LBP episodes. At the outset of the study each subject was given a physical exam and underwent both x-ray and MRI studies. Subjects were assessed every six months for five years via a detailed phone interview and those experiencing any new severe LBP underwent new MRI studies within 6-12 weeks of the onset of their symptoms. All subsequent MRIs were then compared to those taken at the outset of the study. Carragee, et al made the following conclusions:

• Individuals who experience minor trauma (motor vehicle collision, minor fall, lifting injury, etc.) are at NO increased risk for long term problems as long as the injury is rehabbed properly

• Degenerative changes exhibited on MRI DOES NOT increase the risk for long term problems

• Individuals with a “heavy job” are likely to experience persistent, minor LBP but they ARE NOT at increased risk for significant LBP or disability, especially if they do not have high fear beliefs regarding their job duties.

• The vast majority of patients experiencing low back injury exhibit NO CHANGE on MRI

- Essential Messages

• We want to overcome pain not “get rid of it”

• DON’T avoid activity; activity IS GOOD

• LBP although inconvenient and at times very painful can be OVERCOME

• Return to work IS therapy

            ~ You don’t get better in order to go back to work. You go back to work in order to get better!

            ~ Some pain upon returning to activity IS NORMAL