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Patients with high LBP experience significant effects of osteopathic manual treatment
Man Ther. 2013 Dec;18(6):533-40. doi: 10.1016/j.math.2013.05.006. Epub 2013 Jun 10455 patients with chronic low back pain were enrolled and randomized in the OSTEOPATHIC Trial to determine the effect of osteopathic manual treatment (OMT) compared to sham-OMT. The purpose of this analysis was to investigate the effect of baseline pain severity on the effect of treatment. After randomization, patients were divided into subgroups; either low or high baseline pain severity. The results after 12 weeks of treatment indicated that, in patients with high baseline pain severity, OMT was associated with a significantly greater number of cases of substantial pain reduction and improvement in back-specific functioning compared to sham-OMT. These effects were not displayed in patients with low back pain severity.
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