The Av-Med Study, 1993. Nine of ten chiropractic users felt their treatment was effective. The Gallup Organization, 1991. Chiropractic patients were three times more satisfied with their care than patients of family practice physicians. Western Journal of Medicine, 1989.
Chiropractic manipulation is safer than medical management of low-back pain.
The effect of postoperative nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug administration on spinal fusion. The influence of ketorolac on spinal fusion was studied in a retrospective review of 288 patients who underwent an instrumented spinal fusion. To assess the effect of postoperative ketorolac administration on subsequent fusion rates. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are widely used compounds, which are known to inhibit osteogenic activity and have been shown to decrease spinal fusion in an animal model. No previous studies have examined the influence of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on spinal fusion in clinical practice.