Manual therapy
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Somatization is associated with worse outcome in a chiropractic patient population with neck pain and low back pain.
To determine if psychosocial factors are associated with outcome in patients with neck pain or low back pain. ⋯ Somatization was the only variable consistently found to be associated with diminished perceived recovery, higher degree of neck or low back disability, and increased neck or low back pain.