Table 3

A description of patients with LBP who, after 1 month of treatment, fit this management strategy: "I would not consider the treatment to be fully completed and would try a few more treatments and perhaps change my treatment strategy, until I am sure that I cannot do anymore".

General definition of symptoms/findings given as reasons
Total number of replies
Examples

Not (completely) better or worse
10
Improved but not cured
Not better
Only a little better
New symptoms
Slight increase in symptoms
Symptoms worse
Slightly worse
Reoccurrence

Clinical findings
3
Symptom free but clinical findings
Recurrent physical findings
Antalgia

Malmqvist and Leboeuf-Yde Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:7   doi:10.1186/1746-1340-17-7