Spinal manipulation and other non drug treatments now recommended as first line treatments for back pain

Here is a recent article from the Harvard Medical School blog. 
I have been in practice for 27 years and I have for a long time said that if medications worked as well as advertised for back pain, I would have many less patients in my practice. Well the new research is bearing this out as we now know that acetaminophen (Tylenol) is almost worthless, NSAID's including ibufrophen ( Advil and others) are not beneficial for a majority of people, and even opioids (narcotic drugs such as Vicidon are much less effective than previously believed. 
The new guidelines from the American College of Physicians recommends spinal manipulation as with chiropractic care, heat, massage, acupuncture as first line treatments for acute back pain.
Had you heard about the new guidelines?
Here’s something completely different for low back pain

University of Missouri Adds Chiropractic

The Missouri Orthopedic Institute, a branch of the University of Missouri (MU) Health Care System, has added chiropractic to its list of available services and named K. Jeffrey Miller, DC, MBA and Jose Ramirez, DC, MS, CCSP, assistant professors of chiropractic.
The estimated 70,000 patients who visit the institute – the region's largest freestanding orthopaedic center and most comprehensive orthopaedic surgery center – annually are now eligible to receive chiropractic care in an integrated care setting that includes orthopaedic surgeons (including spine surgeons), nurses, rehabilitation staff and other health professionals.
Do you think this is a good addition to the institute's services?

University of Missouri Adds Chiropractic

The Link Between Texting and Back Pain

I now commonly walk into my treatment rooms and I see patients sittiing in the text neck position. Studies have shown that each 10 degrees of forward flexion puts another 10 pounds of stress on the cervical spine...so 60 degrees of flexion can create 60 extra pounds of stress on the neck. Many patients disorders I treat are due to long term low level stress such as this and not specific traumas or incidents.
Best practice is to keep screen as much as possible at eye level and change postions at least every 15 minutes.
Do you sometimes find yourself in the text neck position?

The Link Between Texting and Back Pain