FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 340:388-391 February 4, 1999 Number 5 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited Related Article by Cherkin, D. C.

To the Editor: The American Chiropractic Association is disturbed by the conclusions being drawn about the effectiveness of chiropractic care for the treatment of patients with low back pain on the basis of the study by Cherkin et al. (Oct. 8 issue).¹ The generalizability of the study is severely limited by the exclusion of many types of patients who benefit from chiropractic spinal manipulation, including those who are pregnant and those involved in workers' compensation claims. Studies show that patients treated by chiropractors return to work twice as rapidly as those treated by physicians and at half the cost.^2,3,4 The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References

This article has been cited by other articles:

• Li, L. C, Bombardier, C. (2001). Physical Therapy Management of Low Back Pain: An Exploratory Survey of Therapist Approaches. ptjournal 81: 1018-1028 [Abstract] [Full Text]