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Can chiropractic help back pain
by C1CHC @ 2008-07-08 - 11:46:21

We always knew this at the clinic but now....

it’s official and available to read in the British Medical Journal published June 17 2006 in an article called "Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain". This study looked at over 1000 randomized controlled trials of all low-back treatments. Chiropractic management fared very well in the study, with spinal manipulation recommended for both acute and chronic LBP.

Invasive procedures are hit hard. Facet joints, epidural, trigger-point, and sclerosant injections, and all surgery except surgical discectomy in selected patients who have not responded to conservative management are not recommended.

Most acute patients recover from their pain but up to 73% will have a recurrence of the pain in a year. Only 5% develop chronic pain – but identifying these is the real priority and something we work hard at doing.

Interestingly some of the treatment recommendations from 11 National Clinical Guidelines for acute low Back Pain are:

• Stay active
• Prescribe medications if necessary
• Discourage bed rest
• Consider spinal manipulation for pain relief
• Do not advise back-specific exercise.

A useful web site to check these on is :
www.backpaineurope.org
and of course contact us if you want to know more:
info@c1healthcentre.co.uk
or:
www.c1healthcentre.co.uk

Koes BW, van Tulder MW and Thomas S (2006) Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain British medical Journal 332:1430-1434

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C1CHCC1CHC [Member]
2008-07-22 @ 17:53

And here's another study showing the same:

"A new literature review finds evidence that patients with chronic neck pain enrolled in clinical trials reported significant improvement following chiropractic spinal manipulation". This was in the March/April 2007 Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT).

The artical goes on to say: "Howard Vernon, DC, PhD, the review's chief author, states "The results of the literature review confirm the common clinical experience of doctors of chiropractic: neck manipulation is beneficial for patients with certain forms of chronic neck pain."

As part of the literature review, Dr. Vernon and his colleagues reviewed nine previously published trials and found "high-quality evidence" that patients with chronic neck pain showed significant pain-level improvements following spinal manipulation. No trial group was reported to remain unchanged, and all groups showed positive changes up to 12 weeks post treatment. No trial reported any serious adverse effects.

This literature review did not include studies involving patients with acute neck pain, neck and arm pain, neck pain due to whiplash, or those with headaches. In this review, chronic neck pain was defined as being a minimum of 8 weeks duration.

Researchers also found that mobilization therapy was beneficial in improving patients' pain levels, with many achieving full recovery after six to seven weeks of treatment; however, the current evidence did not support a similar level of benefit from massage therapy.

Spinal manipulation, commonly referred to as a chiropractic adjustment, is the main therapeutic procedure performed by doctors of chiropractic. The purpose of manipulation is to restore joint mobility by manually applying a controlled force into joints that have become hypomobile.

Chiropractors practice a hands-on, drug-free approach to health care that includes patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Chiropractic is widely recognized as one of the safest non-invasive therapies available for the treatment of back pain, neck pain, headaches and other neuromusculoskeletal complaints. In addition, a significant amount of evidence shows that the use of chiropractic care for certain conditions can be more effective and less costly than traditional medical care."

The atrical is available at: http://www.amerchiro.org

But if you have any questions call contact us at:
info@c1healthcentre.co.uk

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