On March 21^st, 2018, The Lancet published a series of studies on lower back pain and once again chiropractic is shown to be very effective with the number one reason that patients seek chiropractic care. What we do in our office ranks very high as far as value while many of the common medical procedures rank very low.

The TCA has put together a short synopsis of the recent Lancet lower back pain studies that we hope you will share with your local primary care physicians, nurse practioners and physicians assistants.

The studies found that:

• Lower Back pain is the most disabling disease in the world.  It has risen 54% since 1990.
• The first choice of therapy should be non-pharmacological care such as spinal manipulation, exercise, acupuncture, and massage.
• Some therapies to avoid: bedrest, opioids, epidural spinal injections, spinal fusion surgery.
• Imaging should occur only if the clinician suspects a specific condition that would require different management for lower back pain.

Please share the information from these medical findings in The Lancet.

TCA has secured copies of these articles for your use:

The TCA has also generated a sample letter that you might use when distributing this information to the medical community:

Download TCA Synopsis letter in Word 

TCA has also developed a powerpoint presentation that may be used.  A pdf version of this power point is available:

View pdf of Powerpoint

If the TCA can assist you in the distribution of this educational information please contact the TCA office.