Patients will benefit from an innovative new approach to low back pain 

treatment, according to new guidelines published in May by the National 

Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). 

Manual therapy, as practised by osteopaths, which includes spinal 

manipulation, mobilisation and massage, is recommended by NICE to assist 

clinicians improve the early management of persistent non-specific low back 

pain. 

Low back pain: Early management of persistent non-specific low back 

pain focuses on patients who “have been in pain for longer than six weeks 

but less than one year, where pain may be linked to structures in the back 

such as joints, muscles and ligaments”.  

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