This study was put forth by the Chiropractic Department in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.  They were looking at possible predictors for improvement in acute and chronic lower back pain patients. The group of researchers found the strongest predictor of clinical improvement was improvement in patients after 1 week of treatment. These patients were 4 to 5 times more likely to be significantly improved at 3 months than those who showed little […]

A recent study conducted by both the University of Zürich and the Orthopaedic University Hospital Balgrist, in Zürich, Switzerland, put forth some interesting outcomes.  They found that the strongest predictor of improvement for both acute and chronic neck pain patients was their prior improvement. For example, acute patients were about 3 times more likely to be improved at 3 months if they reported being improved at 1 week, and chronic patients were more than 6 times […]