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Monday 28 March 2016

NICE no longer recommends acupuncture, chiropractic or osteopathy for low back pain | Edzard Ernst

On this blog, I have repeatedly pleaded for a change of the 2010 NICE guidelines for low back pain (LBP). My reason was that it had become quite clear that their recommendation to use spinal manipulation and acupuncture for recurrent LBP was no longer supported by sound evidence.

Two years ago, a systematic review (authored by a chiropractor and published in […]

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