Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain: A Joint Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society

In 2007, the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society listed a number of recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of Low Back Pain. it included the following:

for patients who do not improve with self care options, clinicians should consider the addition of non pharmacologic therapy with proven benefits—for acute low back pain, spinal manipulation; for chronic or sub acute low back pain, intensive interdisciplinary rehabilitation, exercise therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy, spinal manipulation.Read the full article.