Manual Therapy vs Opioids for Management of Shoulder, Spine Pain
Choosing — or starting treatment with — manual therapy over opioid medications for the management of spine or shoulder may result in lower associated downstream costs.
Choosing — or starting treatment with — manual therapy over opioid medications for the management of spine or shoulder may result in lower associated downstream costs.
A combination of usual medical care and chiropractic care may be more effective than usual care alone in treating acute low back pain and associated disability in active-duty military personnel.
For active-duty military personnel, the addition of chiropractic care to usual medical care is associated with improvements in low back pain intensity and disability.
The ACP developed the guideline from randomized, controlled trials and systematic reviews published through April 2015 that focused on noninvasive pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments for low back pain.
Effect of chiropractic manipulation on migraine likely to result from a placebo response.
Real and sham chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy are equally likely to ease patients’ migraine pain.