UK BEAM Trial Team (Andrea Manca) British Medical Journal 329:1381 December 11, 2004 FROM ABSTRACT Objective To assess the cost effectiveness of adding spinal manipulation, exercise classes, or manipulation followed by exercise (“combined treatment”) to “best care” in general practice for patients consulting with low back pain. Design Stochastic cost utility analysis alongside pragmatic randomised […]
Nonoperative Management of Low Back Pain and Lumbar Disc Degeneration
An Instructional Course Lecture, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY VOLUME 86-A · NUMBER 8 · AUGUST 2004 BY DARREL S. BRODKE, MD, AND STEPHEN M. RITTER, MD THESE AUTHORS NOTE: Low back pain is often a difficult problem to solve. “There is a paucity of evidence from the […]
Comparative Analysis of Individuals With and Without Chiropractic Coverage
Patient Characteristics, Utilization, and Costs Archives of Internal Medicine October 11, 2004;164:1985-1992 Antonio P. Legorreta, MD, MPH; R. Douglas Metz, DC; Craig F. Nelson, DC, MS; Saurabh Ray, PhD; Helen Oster Chernicoff, MD, MSHS; Nicholas A. DiNubile, MD FROM ABSTRACT: Background: Back pain accounts for more than $100 billion in annual US health care costs […]
Cost effectiveness of physiotherapy, manual therapy, and general practitioner care for neck pain: economic evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial
British Medical Journal;326:911; April 26, 2003 Ingeborg B C Korthals-de Bos, Jan L Hoving, Maurits W van Tulder, Maureen P M H Rutten-van Mölken, Herman J Adèr, Henrica C W de Vet, Bart W Koes, Hindrik Vondeling, Lex M Bouter, FROM ABSTRACT: Objective: To evaluate the cost effectiveness of physiotherapy, manual therapy, and care by […]
A symptomatic classification of whiplash injury and the implications for treatment
The Journal of Orthopaedic Medicine Volume 21(l), 1999, pp. 22-25 S Khan, J Cook, M Gargan G Bannister University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bristol, UK FROM INCLUDED ABSTRACT Objective: To determine which patients with chronic whiplash will benefit from chiropractic treatment. Design: Retrospective review by structured telephone interviews of 93 consecutive patients seen in […]
Chiropractic treatment of chronic ‘whiplash’ injuries
Injury Volume 27, Issue 9, November 1996, Pages 643-645 N. Woodward, J. C. H. Cook, M. F. Gargan and G. C. Bannister University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bristol, UK FROM ABSTRACT Forty-three percent of patients will suffer long-term symptoms following ‘whiplash’ injury, for which no conventional treatment has proven to be effective. A retrospective study […]
Chiropractors and Low Back Pain
The Lancet July 28, 1990, p. 220 The editors of THE LANCET review the June 2nd 1990 British Medical Journal article by Meade [immediately above], Low back pain of mechanical origin: randomized comparison of chiropractic and hospital outpatient treatment. The study used 741 patients. The editors of THE LANCET note: The article “showed a strong […]
Low back pain of mechanical origin: Randomised comparison of chiropractic and hospital outpatient treatment
British Medical Journal June 2, 1990 T W Meade, Sandra Dyer, Wendy Browne, Joy Townsend, A 0 Frank FROM ABSTRACT Objective To compare chiropractic and hospital outpatient treatment for managing low back pain of mechanical origin. Design Randomised controlled trial. Allocation to chiropractic or hospital management by minimization to establish groups for analysis of results […]
Spinal Manipulation in the Treatment of Low Back Pain
Canadian Family Physician March 1985, Vol. 31, pp. 535-540 H. Kirkaldy-Willis and J. D. Cassidy Dr. Kirkaldy-Willis is a Professor Emeritus of Orthopedics and director of the Low-Back Pain Clinic at the University Hospital, Saskatoon, Canada. FROM ABSTRACT: Spinal manipulation, one of the oldest forms of therapy for back pain, has mostly been practiced outside […]
What Are The Tissue Sources For Spine Pain?
Chiropractic spinal adjustments and manual therapy primarily affect the spinal discs and facet (zygapophysial) joints. The studies below indicate that it is these joints that are responsible for chronic spinal pain. The first study was Dr. Vert Mooney’s Presidential Address of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine. It was delivered at […]