It was long believed that chiropractic spinal manipulation was only effective for acute low back pain and only in the short-term. Several studies have now shown that spinal manipulation is also effective for chronic low back pain in both the short-term and long-term. This is a recent study from the January, 2010 issue of Clinical Rehabilitation Journal. It had 210 subjects with chronic low back pain and median age of 59 years old. The physiotherapy group received mobilization, exercise, and soft tissue techniques and the back school group received instruction in how to lift.
The manipulation group had the most improvement in both the short-term and the one-year follow-up.
Spinal Manipulation Compared with Back School and with Individually Delivered Physiotherapy for the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Trial with One-year Follow-up
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