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How to Tell When Shoulder Problems Masquerade As Cervical Spine Problem Patients referred for neck disc surgery may easily be incorrectly diagnosed when the shoulder is the real culprit. With sophisticated MRI scans for neck pain – How can this happen so often? Simple. MRI scans are generally non-specific in findings. It’s a little known fact that MRI [...] Meds For Back Pain? Doctors Should Say “No” More Often According to New Approach From Harvard Gordon D. Schiff, M.D. (Harvard Med School – Boston) with associates from the University of Illinois at Chicago advise M.D.s to: Think beyond drugs such as narcotics. Would other interventions help? Need a Better Back Pain Pill? Perhaps Try Nucynta… One of the meds I’ve been using for a year or so (for my patients) is NUCYNTA® which called a mu-opioid agonist – that means it is a morphine-like drug. Seems to work pretty well for moderate to severe pain. Indicated for “Acute pain” but is being tested [...] True Tale of Death By Vicodin I heard the back pain story of a former narcotics officer yesterday. Once he began relying primarily on Vicodin to relieve his lower back pain, it was less than a year before he was: 1) Off the police force having lost his job due to effects of the pills [...] Increasing use of hardware and devices for various types of surgery such as spine surgery, joint replacement surgery and fracture fixation serves as an infection magnet. The foreign material in the body – once thought to be completely inert – appears to increase the risk of infection. This is especially true in the presence of the [...] MRI a Bad Idea For Most Back Pain Looking for back pain relief, you might find yourself in the “Back Pain Health Center” of top-ranked WebMD. Today the #1 Google site offers a commentary on the Annals of Internal Medicine article (February, 2011) advising against the all-too-common and overused Rx of X-rays and MRI’s for back pain. Sadly, [...] |
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