Summary Remarks

Research shows that a change from managing patients with low back pain with rest and medication (as in the traditional medical paradigm) to spinal manipulation, early activity and exercise (as in the chiropractic paradigm), is now essential from the perspectives of both patient and payer.

Industry, insurance and governments can save millions of dollars annually, with a shift in policy to prefer chiropractic services for patients with low back pain, since it has been scientifically proven time and again that for low back pain, chiropractic provides clinical results, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction.

Health care policy makers must now start taking the responsible and needed leadership for making policy changes that ensure chiropractic care is available and the preferred management approach for low back pain.