Compared with local exercise therapy, hands-on spinal manipulation therapy is more effective in improving knee pain and function in patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome, according to published ...

The lessening of pain sensitivity achieved with spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) occurs as a result of the treatment and not as much from a placebo effect caused by the expectation of receiving SMT.

A review of the evidence on the use of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies to treat babies with colic has shown some that some treatments—including probiotics, fennel extract and spinal ...

Manipulating the spine can help people with lower back pain — but it doesn't work for everyone, according to a new study. Spinal manipulation, or applying force to the joints of the spine, is a ...

Patients with acute low back pain receiving recommended first line-care do not recover more quickly with the addition of diclofenac or spinal manipulative therapy. These are the conclusions of authors ...

There is little evidence that spinal manipulation is an effective treatment for headaches, according to the authors of a new study. Millions of Americans suffer from chronic headaches, and many see ...

(Reuters Health) - - Spinal manipulation therapy isn't routinely recommended as the initial treatment for low back pain, but a research review suggests this approach may work as well as interventions ...

Sidney M Rubinstein, Annemarie de Zoete, Marienke van Middelkoop, Willem J J Assendelft, Michiel R de Boer, Maurits W van Tulder https://www.jstor.org/stable/26958362 ...

Chiropractors really do relieve back pain, new research suggests. When given alongside pain medication and physical therapy, spinal manipulation benefits 62.6 percent of lower-back pain sufferers ...

Spinal manipulation therapy can help lessen pain sensitivity, according to a study published in The Journal of Pain. Spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) has been shown to reduce the severity of lower ...

The analysis included 24,993 adult patients per cohort who were diagnosed with a new episode of low back pain with or without sciatica from 2015 to 2023. HealthDay News — Adults receiving spinal ...