Responding to pressure from chiropractors, UnitedHealthcare has revised its coverage policy for spinal manipulation to treat patients with severe headaches. A week after the American Chiropractic ...

Spinal decompression is a type of treatment for back pain. Decompression can be done both surgically and non-surgically. With both treatments, the goal is to stretch your spine and change its position ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with local exercise therapy, hands-on spinal manipulation therapy is more effective in improving knee ...

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 ...

A new study shows that clinician-supported self-management, but not spinal manipulation, is linked to greater improvement in disability from low back pain than recommended medical care.

Researchers have distinguished between manipulation and mobilization. Anita Gross, the Canadian researcher, describes mobilization as a "slow, sustained, or repeated type of movement." Most of what ...

Biopsychosocial self-management was associated with significant but small reductions in disability in patients with acute low back pain.

William Reed DC, PhD, directs the Mechanisms of Spinal Manual Therapy laboratory (MSMT). Globally, there is growing popularity and increased use of non-pharmacological approaches for acute and chronic ...

Chiropractic care, a type of alternative medicine, involves manual (hands-on) manipulation that encourages your body to heal itself. Yet, as you may have read or heard for yourself, some people ...

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 ...

Learn how ATTR-CM can cause spinal stenosis and back pain, what the diagnosis process looks like, and how to best treat and ...