Chiropractic and Spinal Manipulation Red Flags: A Comprehensive Review
Science-Based Medicine,
Many people visit chiropractors’ offices seeking relief from back pain. Appropriate use of spinal manipulation provided by a…
Chiropractic spinal manipulation = placebo!
Edzard Ernst,
Regular readers of this blog will be aware of the many bogus claims made by chiropractors. One claim, however, namely the one…
Chiropractic for back pain? Perhaps we should think again
Edzard Ernst,
Some experts concede that chiropractic spinal manipulation is effective for chronic low back pain (cLBP). But what is the right…
From Science-Based Medicine–Veterinary Chiropractic
The SkeptVet Blog,
People are sometimes surprised to learn that all the heavy hitters of alternative medicine, such as acupuncture, chiropractic…
CHIROPRACTIC: Spinal manipulative therapy damned with faint praise (again)
SaveYourself.ca,
Spinal manipulation: underwhelming effects on back pain since 1895. Recently I posted a quick link to this new review of…
Manipulative Therapy for Low-Back Pain Reviewed
Pain-Topics.org News/Research UPDATES,
CHIROPRACTIC: The devil is in the details
SaveYourself.ca,
There’s a new study about spinal adjustment, with some fanfare. Neil O’Connell: The email from the industry was effusive. In…
Maintenance spinal manipulation: The cherry-pickers quandary
Body in Mind,
CHIROPRACTIC: Spinal manipulation for back pain damned with faint praise by a new review
SaveYourself.ca,
A new review of the science of spinal adjustment for low back pain (A.K.A.chiropractic ) finds that it is “no better or worse…