Outcomes of osteopathic manual treatment for chronic low back pain according to baseline pain severity: Results from the OSTEOPATHIC Trial

Manual Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 533-540

  Licciardone, John C ^a   Kearns, Cathleen M ^a   Minotti, Dennis E ^a  

^a University of North Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic low back pain; Manual therapy; Osteopathic medicine; Osteopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROLAND MORRIS DISABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN; MANUAL THERAPY; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; OSTEOPATHY;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MANIPULATION, OSTEOPATHIC; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 84887017401     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2013.05.006     Document Type: Article

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