Sub-acute (4-12-week duration) and chronic (more than 3-month duration) non-specific low back pain (LBP) is frequent, disabling and costly. The effectiveness of usual treatments (including pain killers, anti-inflammatory drugs, spinal injections, physiotherapy, spinal traction, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, etc) may be not sufficient, and many patients resort to alternative therapies. Manipulative treatments represent en emerging therapy in this area, although studies assessing their effectiveness are limited and often biased. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of two manual therapies on improving functional recovery in sub-acute and chronic non-specific low back pain at 3 months. A standardised osteopathic manipulative treatment is compare to a placebo of osteopathic manipulative treatment.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a standardised osteopathic manipulative treatment is more effective than a placebo of osteopathic manipulative treatment, in sub-acute and chronic non-specific low back pain on functional recovery at 3 months.