Low Back Pain

Did you know more people leave their job because of low back pain than diabetes, hypertension, neoplasm, asthma, heart and respiratory disease combined?

And about one in four adults in the USA had low back pain that lasted for at least 24 hours within the previous 3 months, with 7.6% adults reporting at least one episode of severe acute low back pain within a 1-year period. Gianola et al. (2022)

In a recent large systematic review of 46 randomized control trials published by the “British Journal of Sports Medicine”, (Gianola et al., 2022), manual therapy provided by a physical therapist was deemed to be a highly effective treatment for a “mechanical non-specific” type of back pain. This is the back pain we see most commonly in the general public. Other treatments such as anti-inflammatory medication were also effective.

This type of high quality research that reviews many other pieces of research all in one large cohort, is the best tool we have to improve peoples lives with evidence based treatments.