Jeff Langmaid (speaker) argues that clinical guidelines now recommend spinal manipulation as a first-line treatment for chronic low back pain and several other conditions. He emphasizes this is a roughly 10-year trend in the literature, but notes that these guideline recommendations have not yet translated into referral patterns or decision-making in many communities, though the evidentiary foundation exists.
The first line here. I just like it. And I say this because it's so different than how people think or what every other healthcare provider in your community probably knows. They start out by just saying clinical guidelines recommend spinal manipulation not only for chronic low back pain, but for many other things in the literature. It's like, this is like a 10 year old phenomenon. It's like, of course that's what the first line treatment should be. Now, that hasn't correlated to referral habits very well and it hasn't correlated to decision making. But that foundation is all there for us. It is all there for us.
