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Patients with long-lasting or recurrent low back
pain helped with chiropractic care.
The May 2001 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and
Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT) carried a report of a
study on the effect of chiropractic care on patients
with recurrent or long lasting low back pain. Numerous
studies over past years have shown that chiropractic
care was beneficial for patients with acute and short
term back pain. However, due to the difficulty of
conducting a large study, research to show what
thousands of chiropractors and their patients have known
about help with long term back pain was scarce.
A total of 19 Norwegian chiropractors participated in
this study. In all 158 patients were studied, all of
whom fit the criteria of suffering from long lasting or
reoccurring lower back pain for at least two weeks
duration, with at least one previous occurrence in the
previous 6 months. All subjects could not have had any
chiropractic care in the prior 6 months to be eligible
to participate in the study. Participants were
questioned each visit to rate their progress as it
relates to the pain.
The results showed that approximately 50% of patients
reported that they had “improved” at the 4th visit. By
the 12th visit, approximately 75% of the patients
reported that “improvement” had occurred. The study only
recorded data for the first 12 visits so no data on
additional benefits after 12 visits was available. The
researchers did conclude, "there seems to be a distinct
recovery pattern among chiropractic patients with
relatively long-lasting or recurrent lower back pain."
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