Chiropractic for Chronic LBP: Maintenance Care Better Than Short-Term Therapy

This is the first ever randomized controlled trial of manipulation maintenance therapy and was published in the prestigious medical journal Spine. There were three groups of patients with chronic (more than six months) low back pain consisting of a manipulation group of one month treatment, a sham manipulation group, and a manipulation group of one month treatment and an additional nine months of maintenance treatment. The real manipulation groups both showed significant improvement. This study found that patients who received an additional nine months of one visit per month maintenance treatment not only maintained their improvement, but they actually gained significant additional improvement!

Here is a link to a review article.

Chiropractic for Chronic LBP: Maintenance Care Better Than Short-Term Therapy