A recent systematic epidemiological review has found that for both neck pain and back pain, spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) appears to be a cost-effective treatment strategy when used alone or in combination with General Practitioner (GP) care, advice and/or exercise, in comparison to GP care alone – yet another reason to encourage your family physician to consider recommending spinal manipulative therapy (often carried out by Chiropractors, Physiotherapists or Osteopaths) in the treatment of neck or back [...]

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 [...]