Providing care to people with low back pain is core business for the chiropractic profession, and low back pain is the most common presenting symptom to chiropractors in all parts of the globe. The main message of these papers support an evidence-based chiropractic approach as a reasonable first line approach for patients with low back pain.
Low back pain: a major global problem for which the chiropractic profession needs to take more care – Full Text Article
Simon D. FrenchEmail authorView ORCID ID profile, Aron S. Downie and Bruce F. Walker
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2018 26:28
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-018-0199-6© The Author(s). 2018
Received: 11 May 2018Accepted: 15 June 2018Published: 25 June 2018
Abstract
An important series of papers have been published in the Lancet. These papers provide a comprehensive update for the major global problem of low back pain, and the challenges that low back pain presents to healthcare practitioners and policy makers. Chiropractors are well placed to reduce the burden of low back pain, but not all that chiropractors do is supported by robust, contemporary evidence. This commentary summarises the Lancet articles. We also make suggestions for how the chiropractic profession should most effectively help people with low back pain by implementing practices supported by high quality evidence.