Spinal manipulation therapy can have good results in the treatment of nonspecific low back pain, and spinal manipulations after the initial intensive manipulation may be helpful for long-term benefit, according to a study published in Spine.
Researchers followed 60 patients with chronic, nonspecific low back pain which lasted longer than six months. The patients either received 12 treatments of sham SMT during a one month period, 12 SMT treatments during a one month period and no subsequent treatments for nine months or 12 treatments during the one month period and two maintenance treatments every two weeks for nine months.
Patients who received SMT reported significantly lower pain and disability scores than patients who received the sham SMT at the end of the first month. Only the third group of patients who received spinal manipulations during the nine month follow up period showed more improvement in pain and disability scores at the 10-month evaluation, according to the report.
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Patients who received SMT reported significantly lower pain and disability scores than patients who received the sham SMT at the end of the first month. Only the third group of patients who received spinal manipulations during the nine month follow up period showed more improvement in pain and disability scores at the 10-month evaluation, according to the report.
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