The Appropriateness of Spinal Manipulation for Low Back Pain. Project Overview and Literature Review

RAND, a prestigious research organization in the US, released a report on the appropriateness of spinal manipulation for low-back pain. On the efficacy of spinal manipulation for low-back pain, although the investigators found that the literature on this subject is of uneven quality, they concluded that "support is consistent for the use of spinal manipulation as a treatment for patients with acute low-back pain and an absence of other signs or symptoms of lower limb nerve-root involvement".