Association of spinal manipulative therapy with clinical benefit and harm for acute lowback pain systematic review and meta-Analysis

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 317, Issue 14, 2017, Pages 1451-1460

  Paige, Neil M ^a   Miake Lye, Isomi M ^a,b   Booth, Marika Suttorp ^c   Beroes, Jessica M ^a   Mardian, Aram S ^d   Dougherty, Paul ^e   Branson, Richard ^a   Tang, Baron ^f   Morton, Sally C ^g   Shekelle, Paul G ^a,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Research Service   (United States)

^e Canandaigua Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^f VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; META ANALYSIS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MYALGIA; NUMERIC RATING SCALE; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN SEVERITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; ROLAND MORRIS DISABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE; SPINE MANIPULATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ACUTE PAIN; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CONVALESCENCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES;

ACUTE PAIN; ADULT; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATION, SPINAL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 85017501167     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.3086     Document Type: Review

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