PMID- 22068371
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120405
LR  - 20191027
IS  - 1938-1352 (Electronic)
IS  - 0748-7711 (Linking)
VI  - 48
IP  - 8
DP  - 2011
TI  - Retrospective case series of clinical outcomes associated with chiropractic 
      management for veterans with low back pain.
PG  - 927-34
AB  - Musculoskeletal complaints, most notably low back pain (LBP), are prevalent among 
      veterans. Despite a focus on LBP management by chiropractors within the Veterans 
      Health Administration, limited published accounts detail clinical outcomes with 
      chiropractic management of LBP among veterans. This was a retrospective case 
      series of 171 veterans with a chief complaint of LBP who were managed with 
      chiropractic care. Descriptive statistics and paired t-tests were used, with the 
      Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) and the Back Bournemouth Questionnaire (BBQ) serving 
      as the outcome measures. A minimum clinically important difference (MCID) was set 
      as 30% improvement from baseline for both measures. The mean number of treatments 
      was 8.7. For the NRS, the mean raw score improvement was 2.2 points, representing 
      37.4% change from baseline; 103 (60.2%) patients met or exceeded the MCID. For 
      the BBQ, the mean raw score improvement was 13.6 points, representing 34.6% 
      change from baseline; 92 patients (53.8%) met or exceeded the MCID. For this 
      sample of veterans with LBP, the mean percentages of clinical improvement were 
      statistically significant and clinically meaningful for both the NRS and BBQ.
FAU - Dunn, Andrew S
AU  - Dunn AS
AD  - Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo VA 
      Medical Center, 3495 Bailey Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14215, USA. andrew.dunn@va.gov
FAU - Green, Bart N
AU  - Green BN
FAU - Formolo, Lance R
AU  - Formolo LR
FAU - Chicoine, David
AU  - Chicoine D
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - J Rehabil Res Dev
JT  - Journal of rehabilitation research and development
JID - 8410047
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Low Back Pain/*therapy
MH  - Male
MH  - *Manipulation, Chiropractic
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Pain Measurement
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Severity of Illness Index
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Treatment Outcome
MH  - United States
MH  - United States Department of Veterans Affairs
EDAT- 2011/11/10 06:00
MHDA- 2012/04/06 06:00
CRDT- 2011/11/10 06:00
PHST- 2011/11/10 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/11/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/04/06 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1682/jrrd.2010.10.0202 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Rehabil Res Dev. 2011;48(8):927-34. doi: 10.1682/jrrd.2010.10.0202.