The State of Oregon has released its new Evidence-Based
Clinical Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Low Back Pain.
Interestingly, these guidelines list spinal manipulation as the only non-drug
treatment for acute low back pain.
These guidelines were adopted by the Oregon Health Authority
as a collaborative effort between the Center for Evidence-Based Practice, the
Oregon Corporation for Health Care Quality, the Oregon Health and Sciences
University’s Center for Evidence-Based Policy, and the Oregon Health Evidence
Review Commission.
Adoption of these guidelines involved the submission of many
studies showing the efficacy of a conservative but intensive interdisciplinary
approach to low back pain instead of relying solely on surgery or other
invasive procedure. One of the studies submitted was the Agency for Health Care
Policy and Research (AHCPR) acute low back pain guidelines. The AHCPR
guidelines state that spinal manipulation helps relieve pain while restoring
function. This is an important point because while pain medications help to
temporarily relieve pain they do nothing to restore function, which is a vital
component of truly healing low back pain syndromes.
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Perry Hall, MD 21236
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