Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

Shocking Stats! Chiropractic vs. Medical Care for Back Pain

29 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube commentary (Jeff Langmaid) describing results from a Spine Journal randomized controlled trial (the "Cairo Study") comparing medical care alone versus medical care plus chiropractic for acute mechanical low back pain. The speaker reports a statistically and clinically significant benefit: 73% of participants who received both medical care and chiropractic had improvement or complete resolution of pain versus 17% for medical care alone; the speaker emphasizes this as a large, clinically meaningful effect.

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Spine Journal.

The Cairo Study.

Acute mechanical low back pain.

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That means that what we're doing with chiropractic matters a little bit. There was a statistically and clinically significant benefit to those who received chiropractic. 73% of participants that had both had improvement or pain completely gone, compared to 17% of medical care alone. So literally, like the complete opposite, it completely changed the dynamic 100%. If somebody who is receiving standard medical care added chiropractic, that's a big deal. That is a big deal. And this is a great paper as well from the Spine Journal, the Cairo Study, a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of medical and chiropractic management of people with acute mechanical low back pain.