Long-Term Medicare Costs Associated With Opioid Analgesic Therapy vs Spinal Manipulative Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain in a Cohort of Older Adults
The purpose of this study was to compare Medicare healthcare expenditures for patients who received long-term treatment of chronic low back pain (cLBP) with either opioid analgesic therapy (OAT) or spinal manipulative therapy (SMT).
Source: Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: James M. Whedon, Anupama Kizhakkeveettil, Andrew Toler, Todd A. MacKenzie, Jon D. Lurie, Serena Bezdjian, Scott Haldeman, Eric Hurwitz, Ian Coulter Source Type: research
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