Zadro JR, et al. Pain Physician. 2018.
This recent article published in 2018 in the journal Pain Physcian, reviewed the literature to determine the relationship of Vitamin D supplementation and low back pain (LBP). The authors sifted through 3534 articles for relevance and came up with 8 that fit the criteria. The evidence quality was very low but the results were consistent showing that Vitamin D supplementation was no better than placebo. The authors stated that until well-designed clinical trials are completed there is no evidence to support vitamin D supplementation at this time and therefore cannot be recommended for the treatment of low back pain.
