Dose-response and efficacy of spinal manipulation for care of chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background context

There have been no full-scale trials of the optimal number of visits for the care of any condition with spinal manipulation.

Purpose

To identify the dose-response relationship between visits to a chiropractor for spinal manipulation and chronic low back pain (cLBP) outcomes and to determine the efficacy of manipulation by comparison with a light massage control.

Study design/setting

Practice-based randomized controlled trial.

Patient sample

Four hundred participants with cLBP.

Outcome measures

The primary cLBP outcomes were the 100-point modified Von Korff pain intensity and functional disability scales evaluated at the 12- and 24-week primary end points. Secondary outcomes included days with pain and functional disability, pain unplea

SUBMITTER: Haas M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3989479 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature