Conditions we treat
Spinal manipulation / mobilisation has been shown to be effective in adults by the 2010 report, by Professor Gert Bronfort entitled 'Effectiveness of Manual Therapies’ for a number of painful conditions including acute, subacute, and chronic low back pain; for migraine prevention and cervicogenic headache, and a number of upper and lower extremity joint conditions. Thoracic spinal manipulation/mobilisation is effective for acute/subacute neck pain, and, when combined with exercise, cervical spinal /manipulation is effective for chronic neck pain. Treatments and advice are available for sciatica.
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More recently the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and the Advertising Authority (ASA) has issued guidance about the conditions chiropractors may claim to treat. The conditions listed are: ankle sprain (short term management), elbow pain and tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) arising from associated musculoskeletal conditions of the back and neck, inability to relax, joint pains, joint pains including hip and knee pain from osteoarthritis, acute & chronic backache, back pain (not arising from injury or accident, generalised aches and pains, lumbago, mechanical neck pain, migraine prevention, minor sports injuries and tensions, muscle spasms, plantar fasciitis (the short term management), rotator cuff injuries, sciatica, shoulder soft tissue complaints