This study was the first to examine the treatment of acute
low back pain using Strain-Counterstrain techniques.
Adding the Strain-Counterstrain intervention did not
substantially improve outcomes over exercise therapy
alone. The best estimates of the effect of the intervention
at the three outcome assessment points were only 2 points
or less on a 100-point scale. However, the upper limits of
the 95% CIs around these estimates all still included the
pre-specified minimum clinically important difference of
6 points. Therefore it is possible, although unlikely, that
further research could identify a clinically worthwhile
difference by further refining these estimates.