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Low Back Pain In Children Common: Responds To Chiropractic Care

A study in the January, 2003 Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
finds that low back pain in children is a very common occurrence and that the vast majority of those children who receive chiropractic care experience improvement.

Recent studies have estimated that approximately 50% of children will experience low back pain at some point and 15% of them experience frequent or continual pain.

In this study, 15 chiropractors collected data on 54 children who came to their offices with low back pain. The average age of the patients was 13.1 years old. 61% of them had acute pain and 47% said that their problem began from a traumatic event, most of the time from a sports-related accident. 24% of the children reported that their problem had lasted longer than 3 months. Almost 90% of the cases examined were diagnosed with spinal subluxations (misalignment of the vertebra).

The researchers concluded that “patients responded favorably to chiropractic management, and there were no reported complications.” “Important” improvement was reported by 87% of the kids after six-weeks of care.

Commentary: Some important things to note about this study include the fact that 50% of kids will likely have low back pain at some point. And seeing that 90% of the kids in this study with low back pain had subluxations present, it would make sense to have them checked by a chiropractor on a regular basis. Many times, by the time pain from a subluxation shows up, it has already been there for a long time. An 87% improvement rate without complications is testimony to the safety and effectiveness of chiropractic care for children.

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