An American research project has studied the efficacy of the use of painkilling medicine against chronic low back pain. Patients suffering from chronic LBP who have received chiropractic treatment has 55 % less likelihood of prescribing opioids than patients, who did not receive chiropractic treatment, according to the conclusions reached by the researchers, who carried out the research, in an article titled Association Between Utilization of Chiropractic Services for Treatment of Low-Back Pain and Use of Prescription Opioids in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

There has been an almost epidemic increase in the use of opioids in…

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A systematic scoping review on what patients expect from their treatment by chiropractors, physiotherapists and complementary and alternative medicine concludes that:

• Back patients look for more evidence-based information about the causes of low back pain, its course and the effect of current treatment methods.Despite evidence for active treatment methods for low back pain, the planned procedures are often not completed.
• This systematic scoping review shows that it might be because the treatment does not live up to the patients’ expectations regarding their need for a holistic, personal treatment, pain management or an explanation of their symptoms. Consequently, they…

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A qualitative analysis of stakeholder perspectives on adding a chiropractor to the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team.

Chiropractors work alongside medical doctors, physical therapists, nurses, and other members of the healthcare team in growing numbers. We also provide patient care in diverse settings.

A study in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies explored the thoughts of patients, their families, and healthcare workers about adding a chiropractor to an in-patient hospital team. The patients were at a hospital for brain and spinal cord rehab.

Researchers talked with 60 people to learn more about what they wanted in the chiropractor who would join…

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For many years, lifting with straight knees and a bent back was considered harmful to your back. You had to bend in the knee and lift with a straight back to avoid back injuries. This is a belief which Professor Jens Ivar Brox from the Department of Physical Medicine and rehabilitation at the Oslo University Hospital in Norway challenges in an editorial comment titled ’Lifting with straight legs and bent spine is not bad for your back’ in the journal Scandinavian journal of Pain.

Jens Ivar Brox has penned the editorial comment because the latest edition of the journal…

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