The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7479 p577
24 November 2007

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Diclofenac fails to speed recovery

Neither diclofenac nor spinal manipulative therapy reduces the time taken to recover from acute lower-back pain, according to a Lancet study (2007;370:1638).

The community-based study of 240 patients with lower-back pain of less than six weeks’ duration showed no significant differences between diclofenac and placebo or between physiotherapist spinal manipulation and sham manipulation.