Does Clinician Treatment Choice Improve the Outcomes of Manual Therapy for Nonspecific Low Back Pain? A Metaanalysis

Few quality studies are available, and conclusions on the basis of these data need to be interpreted with caution. However, allowing clinicians to choose from a number of treatment techniques does not appear to have improved the outcomes of these RCTs that have investigated the effect of manual therapy for NSLBP. If tailoring manual therapy treatment to NSLBP patients does positively impact on patient outcomes, this is not yet systematically apparent [J Manipulative Physiol Ther 28 (2005), 000-000].