Study finds chiropractic spinal manipulation does not increase the risk of cauda equina syndrome
HMN 2024 – Incidence of cauda equina syndrome (CES) per cohort after propensity matching. CES occurs in a smaller proportion of patients in the CSM cohort (purple) compared to the PT evaluation cohort (green). However, the 95% confidence intervals overlap at 0.09%, indicating a potentially non-meaningful difference. Credit: PLOS ONE (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299159 A recent study led by […]