Report of a CSAG Committee on Back Pain

In 1994, a British Clinical Standards Advisory Group was asked by the United Kingdom Health Ministers to develop guidelines for patients with back pain. The group found that there is considerable evidence that manipulation can provide short-term symptomatic benefit in some patients with acute back pain and recommended that manipulation should be available as a therapeutic option for the treatment of National Health Service (NHS) patients with back pain, and should be carried out by appropriately trained therapists or practitioners.