NCT00285649

Predicting Patients' Response to Spinal Manipulation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 192 (actual)
• Sponsor: Palmer College of Chiropractic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the clinical effectiveness of two types of chiropractic spinal manipulation to conservative medical care for patients at least 55 years old with sub-acute or chronic LBP.

Detailed description

Despite the high prevalence of LBP and the associated economic costs, disability, and lost productivity, and despite the development of several treatment guidelines, one of which recommends chiropractic spinal manipulation for some subgroups of patients with back pain, the management of LBP remains controversial and highly variable across professions and geographic regions. Although one recent publication describes the design of chiropractic and exercise for seniors with low back or neck pain, no published studies, to our knowledge, have assessed the effectiveness of chiropractic manipulation compared to medical care for older adults with sub-acute or chronic low back pain.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	HVLA-SM	HVLA-SM, Experimental, high-velocity low amplitude spinal manipulation
OTHER	LVVA-SM	LVVA-SM, Experimental, low velocity variable amplitude spinal manipulation
OTHER	Usual Medical Care	Arm: Active Comparator: Usual Medical Care Usual Medical Care, Active Comparator, advice, exercises and medications (Celebrex, Aleve, Bextra, Naptoxen)

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-07-01
• Primary completion: 2006-10-01
• Completion: 2007-03-01
• First posted: 2006-02-02
• Last updated: 2017-08-16
• Results posted: 2017-07-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States