News posted on February 08, 2009 06:25
A study published in Spine magazine compared Chiropractic,
Acupuncture and medication for the treatment of spinal pain that
had persisted for longer than three months and found the best
results came from Chiropractic.
A clinical trial was done at an Australian Public Hospital from
February, 1999 to October, 2001. In this study 115 patients were
enrolled at the Multi-Disciplinary Spinal Pain Unit and were
treated with either Chiropractic spinal adjustments, needle
Acupuncture or medication. The patients were given a health
survey question-naire and a number of standard diagnostic tests at
the beginning of the clinical trial and again at two weeks, five
weeks, and nine weeks into the treatment.
The clinical trial found that while all three showed some
improvement in the health survey questionnaire, Chiropractic
achieved the best overall improvements in almost all of the
objective tests, as well as the highest percentage of patients
becoming pain free – 27.3%.
Acupuncture was found to be twice as effective as medication
and got a better result than Chiropractic on one of the diagnostic
tests.
Medication was found to be the least effective of the three by
any standard of the study.
The study was “Chronic Spinal Pain: A Randomized Clinical
Trial Comparing Medication, Acupuncture, and Spinal Manipulation”
by Lynton G. F. Giles, DC, Ph.D, and Reinhold Muller,
PhD. Published in Spine. Volume 28, Number 14, 1490-1501
(2003)
SOURCE: http://adlergiersch.com/articles.cfm?formAction=articleView&articleID=109&