Study Finds Patients Get Maximum Benefit from More Chiro Visits than Guidelines Suggest

Treatment guidelines might not allow workers’ compensation patients with chronic lower back pain to experience the full benefit of spinal manipulation, according to a researcher who published an article on the subject earlier this year. In California, chiropractors are generally given six trial sessions with an injured worker, according to doctor of chiropractic Mitchell Haas. After that time, chiropractors must justify the need for extra treatment based on pain reduction and function improvement. But a randomized controlled trial study that Haas published in The Spine Journal in...