Jeff Langmaid reviews a 20-year study comparing how UK physiotherapists, osteopaths, and chiropractors treated acute low back pain in 2003 versus 2023. Despite two decades of new research and clinical guidelines, the study asks whether these practitioners actually changed their approach to treatment.
The title of the study, dropped down in the show notes, is The Changing Face of Acute Low Back Pain Management by Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, and Chiropractors in the UK: A 20-Year Comparison from 2003 to 2023. So we're basically gonna take a 20-year time machine all the way through the management of acute low back pain. And I think this is pretty cool because the researchers asked a pretty simple question. After 2 decades of clinical guidelines, regulations, continuing education, new research, endless conversations about evidence-based care, are clinicians and providers actually treating low back pain differently?
