NEW STUDY COMPARES MEDICAL AND CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR LOW BACK PAIN:  CHIROPRACTIC BETTER ACROSS THE BOARDS!

Almost everyone in America suffers from low back pain at one time or another and each know how incapacitating the pain can be.  A recent study has just shown that Chiropractic provides more improvement in pain and return function for chronic low back pain over the most common types of medical care.

          The study followed the results of 93 Chiropractic patients and 45 medical patients with chronic, recurrent low back pain.  Chiropractic treatment included spinal manipulation and other forms of treatment commonly used by chiropractors.  The average number of visits to chiropractors by this group: 4.

          The medical treatments often involved the prescription of anti-inflammatory agents; patients average one visit each to family medical facilities.
          Patients treated by chiropractors showed better overall improvement and satisfaction than medically-treated patients.  At one-month follow up, there was a 36% improvement in pain quality among chiropractic patients, while the group of medical patients reported a 29% deterioration. Pain severity improved 31% among Chiropractic patients but only 6% among medical patients. And there was a 29% improvement in functional disability among Chiropractic patients, compared to 1% for medical patients.