An American research project has studied the efficacy of the use of painkilling medicine against chronic low back pain. Patients suffering from chronic LBP who have received chiropractic treatment has 55 % less likelihood of prescribing opioids than patients, who did not receive chiropractic treatment, according to the conclusions reached by the researchers, who carried out the research, in an article titled Association Between Utilization of Chiropractic Services for Treatment of Low-Back Pain and Use of Prescription Opioids in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
There has been an almost epidemic increase in the use of opioids in…