A Comparative Study: Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression and Spinal Manipulative Therapy- Utilizing a Quantifiable Musculoskeletal Functional Assessment Risk Analysis Tool (MSDR®) in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Inclusion Criteria: * Must have Informed Consent Signed * Lumbar Disc Herniations under 5mm without Sequestered Fragments * Lumbar Disc Bulging * Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease (mild and moderate severity) * Non-pregnant Females and Males suffering from Chronic Low Back Pain from 18 to 65 years of age * Segmental Dysfunction Secondary to Dyskinesia * Unresolved Nerve Entrapment Syndrome * Patients must be able to comply with study protocol * Joint Fixation Syndrome * Premenopausal Female Patients, excluding patients who have undergone a hysterectomy, oophorectomy, or tubal ligation, must have one of the following methods of contraception and must have a negative serum or urine b-HCG pregnancy test performed within 48 hours before initiating protocol specified treatment. Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindications to Spinal Manipulative Therapy * Lumbar Canal Stenosis resulting in significant neurological comprimise * Any Spinal Cord Compression resulting in significant neurological comprimise * Cauda Equina Syndrome * Infection * Osteomyelitis -\>65 years of age * History of Back or Neck Surgery * Acute Arthritis * Signs or Symptoms of Arterial Aneurysm * History of Active Cancer with Bone Metastasis * Widespread Staphyloccal and/or Strepococcal Infection * Acute Gout * Serious unstable medical illness such as cardiovascular, renal, respiratory, endocrine, gastrointestinal, or psychiatric. * Unstable Spondylosis, Spondylolisthesis, or Spondylolysis * Prior adverse experience with Spinal Manipulation Therapy * Uncontrolled Diabetic Neuropathy * Gonorreal Spinal Arthritis * Tuberculosis to the Bone * Maligancy with Metatasis to Bone * Excessive Spinal Osteoporosis * Osteomalacia * Ankylosis * Syphlitic Articular or Peri-Articular Lesions * Active Low Back Injury Resulting from a Motor Vehicle Accident or Work Related Injury