{"id":212,"date":"2018-01-17T17:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimboombachiropractic.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2018-01-17T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:50:55","slug":"why-do-i-need-to-keep-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimboombachiropractic.com\/why-do-i-need-to-keep-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do I Need To Keep Coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Senna, M.K. and Machaly, S.A. (2011) “Does maintained Chiropractic adjustments for chronic\u00a0non-specific low back pain result in better long-term outcome?” Spine. Aug 15;36(18):1427-37.<\/p>\n
Sixty patients, with chronic, non-specific Low Back Pain (LBP) lasting at least 6 months, were randomized to receive either (1) 12
\ntreatments of sham adjustments (SMT) over a 1-month period, (2) 12 treatments, consisting of SMT over a 1-month period, but no
\ntreatments for the subsequent 9 months, or (3) 12 treatments over a 1-month period, along with “maintenance spinal
\nadjustment” every 2 weeks for the following 9 months.”<\/p>\n
Patients in the second and third groups experienced significantly lower pain and disability scores than first group at the Adjustments are effective for the treatment of chronic low back pain. To obtain long-term benefit, this study suggests maintenance adjustments after the initial intensive manipulative therapy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Landmark Study Shows Benefit of\u00a0Maintenance Care Senna, M.K. and Machaly, S.A. (2011) “Does maintained Chiropractic adjustments for chronic\u00a0non-specific low back pain result in better long-term outcome?” Spine. Aug 15;36(18):1427-37. Sixty patients, with chronic, non-specific Low Back Pain (LBP) lasting at least 6 months, were randomized to receive either (1) 12 treatments of sham adjustments (SMT)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15,9,56,64,34,63,38],"yoast_head":"\n
\nend of 1-month period. However, only the third group that was given spinal manipulations (SM) during the follow-up period showed more
\nimprovement in pain and disability scores at the 10-month evaluation.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In the non-maintained (no follow up adjustments) SMT group, however, the mean pain and disability scores returned back near to their\u00a0<\/strong>pre-treatment level.<\/strong>
\nHowever, pain score in the maintained spinal manipulation therapy group continued improving.”<\/strong><\/p>\nConclusions:<\/strong><\/h3>\n