Jeff Langmaid (speaker) summarizes clinical evidence comparing microdiscectomy (surgical) to spinal manipulation for sciatica, stating that at five to ten years follow-up outcomes were equivalent between surgery and manipulation, with manipulation avoiding surgical harms/costs. He also references a separate study reporting spinal manipulation showed statistically and clinically significant benefit versus placebo.
So one of my favorite episodes is probably citing a study that was microdiscectomy versus spinal manipulation for sciatica and the fact that five to 10 years out, whether you had a microdiscectomy or received spinal manipulation, the results were the same. Right. Without any of the harms, any of the risks, any of the costs. And I think that is one of the most powerful studies imaginable. There's another study that I don't know the title of the line in the study, which I think was so powerful, was that spinal manipulation had a statistical and clinical significance over placebo.
