Harvard Medical School Health Letter September 1990 "Chiropractic treatment of low back pain, which affects 75 million Americans, is superior to the standard regimen administered by medical doctors", a major British study has concluded. "Chiropractic almost certainly confers worthwhile long-term benefit in comparison with hospital outpatient management," said Dr. T.W. Meade, a British medical doctor who headed the study conducted at eleven hospitals and chiropractic clinics.

Federal Medical Study Endorses Chiropractic for Back Pain -- US Agency For Health Care Federal Medical Study Policy and Research December 8, 1954 - A panel of 23 doctors headed by Dr. Stanley Bigos, M.D., professor of Orthopedic Surgery, studied 3900 medical articles on low back pain. Their conclusions were that "chiropractor's manipulation of the spine was more helpful than any of the following: traction, massage, and biofeedback, and acupuncture, injection of steroids into the spine, back corsets and ultrasound." Surgery was beneficial in only 1 out of 100 cases!