A new large clinical trial demonstrated that for adults with low back pain, periodic chiropractic maintenance adjustments reduced the total number of days with back pain by more than a dozen per year.

Eklund A. et al. The Nordic Maintenance Care program: Effectiveness of chiropractic maintenance care versus symptom-guided treatment for recurrent and persistent low back pain-A pragmatic randomized controlled trial. PLoS One. 2018 Sep 12;13(9):e0203029.