Practice guidelines recommend various types of exercise and manipulative therapy for
chronic back pain but there have been few head-to-head comparisons of these
interventions. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to compare effects of general
exercise, motor control exercise and manipulative therapy on function and perceived effect
of intervention in patients with chronic back pain. Two hundred and forty adults with non-
specific low back pain⩾ 3months were allocated to groups that received 8weeks of general …