Yoga Training Most-effective Long-term Back Pain Relief

Back Pain Management Yoga Training Actually Gives Better Relief Than Chiropractic

Study from the U.K. reports that a 12-week basic yoga group training program improves back function more than exercise and manipulation, cognitive-behavior treatment and six sessions of 1-to-1 Alexander technique.

All of these simple, practical treatments are more effective than chiropractic treatment – and [...]

Common Practice to Avoid Lifting With Bad Back is WRONG!

Common Practice to Avoid Lifting With Bad Back is WRONG!

New research demonstrates that healthy discs require lifting to maintain the proper flow of nutrients. So exercise is what actually keeps discs healthy and happy.

If you STOP exercising and using your back, the discs deteriorate faster, potentially increasing your back pain. One more reason why the [...]

Chiropractic Tested -

Chiropractic – “No Better Than Placebo”
6,000 Patients Tested – 26 Clinical Studies

If you have chronic lower back pain – Don’t waste your time on chiropractic spinal manipulation therapy. New review finds it of “no clinical significance.”

June – 2011 Issue – Spine: Lead author – Sidney M. Rubinstein of VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam says improvement [...]

Duloxetine - Effective Back Pain Relief Med

Duloxetine – Effective Back Pain Relief

New FDA approval was granted in November, 2010 for once-a-day oral treatment of chronic pain in the bones, joints and muscles – including the lower back. F.D.A. panel-members appeared most impressed with the results of several double-blind, randomized clinical studies demonstrating effective low back pain [...]

Best Pain Meds For Low Back Pain Relief? Warning...

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 [...]

New Chronic Back Pain Relief Approach

New Back “Pain-Nerve” Approach Cuts Pain By Two-thirds

Using a novel new super hi-frequency signal device called – Nevro Spinal Cord Stimulation – U.K. researchers report chronic back and leg pain relief of up to 70-80% after 6 months.

The signal acts directly on spinal cord fibers called – “sparse fibers” which are inflammatory-sensitive fibers in the [...]

Chiropractic For Back Pain - "Not the Best!" Say Experts

The Back Pain-Relief Fast-track

Here is a good summary of the “new” Cochrane Reviews opinion on chiropractic:

Dr. Tim Carey, researcher at UNC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, states that many people will try several different treatment approaches – often including spinal manipulation – shopping from one to the next in an attempt to obtain a back [...]

Chiropractic Manipulation – “Can It Help My Back Pain?”

Fast Back Pain Relief – Part 2 – Comments on Cochrane Reviews Opinion

The review authors looked for randomized controlled trials (RCT’s) about chiropractic for back pain. RCT’s are most-often considered by doctors as the most reliable forms of medical research. Their search identified 26 studies with 6,070 participants that met the minimum standards to be [...]

"To Get Faster Relief, Should You Try Chiropractic?"

New Cochrane Reviews Suggests Benefits?

Chiropractic back pain therapy may be worthy of consideration, especially if you suffer from chronic lower back pain. So finds a new review of existing research about that spinal manipulation or “adjustment” of your back alignment often performed by chiropractors. Review authors say this is the kind of hands-on regime that [...]

Hulk Hogan's Back Pain - What's Causing It? And, Why Is He Stuck?

Too often “more surgery”, “more procedures”, and “more costly gizmos” to kill pain are a formula for continued failure. In many cases, several alternative therapies – taken together – will do the trick! [...]