d to (1) therapy (physical or nutritional), (2) treatment condition (osteoporosis or psychological), (3) longevity of
4problem (more than five years or five years or less), (4) impact of problem (loss of work time or no loss of work time), and (5) duration of therapy (subject continued therapy subse quent to completion of prescribed program or subject did not continue therapy). Results were measured according to three dependent variables: (1) pain relief experience (therapy relieved pain or therapy did not relieve pain); (2) impact on activity (subject was able to resume physical activities or subject was not able to resume activities); and (3) recurrence of symptoms (symptoms recurred subsequent to therapy or symp toms did not recur).
Two hypotheses were tested. The first hypothesis held that subjects would have shorter recovery times when treated by orthomolecular nutritional therapy than when treated by physical therapy. The second hypothesis held that subjects would (1) be able to resume normal activities earlier, and (2) report
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