Shortcut to Back Pain Relief? Confirmed.

New Swedish Report Highlights Success of “New-Wave” Alternative Back Pain Treatment

Going to the doctor for back pain? Maybe NOT such a good idea for 80-90% of those with acute or sub-acute back pain.

You’ve maybe read my tweets or blog posts on the new approach to back pain relief promoted by the American Academy of Orthopedic [...]

Women's Back Pain Relief - No Trauma

Vertebroplasy – (Maybe) Fast Pain-relief for Compression Fractures

Pop #2 – If there is a vertebral compression fracture. Prompt minimally-invasive vertebroplasty may be a good option, especially if pain meds aren’t enough in the first few days. Vertebroplasty – depending on your specific fracture may be a reasonable (if controversial) option.

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Stainless or Titanium Surgical Implants?

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 [...]

"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 [...]

Back Pain Relief - Skip the X-rays and MRI?

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, [...]

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! [...]

Is Finding the ‘Cause’ of Low Back Pain a Myth?

The search for an anatomic or structural cause of the back pain FAILS in 80-90% of cases…Why wait for pain-relief? With the new approaches – hours-days [...]

Grave-Robbers Document Back Pain Fast-Relief Solution - Modern Science Confirms It?

Grave Robbers Document Ancient Back Pain Solutions

Egyptian Low Back Pain Cure 3,500 Years Old

Pain in the lower back has been a problem with no good remedies for thousands of years. Mummy-hunting grave-robbers dug up an Egyptian papyri dated over 3,500 years ago that describes a common treatment plan for lower back strain. Their treatment [...]

Back Pain Relief in 47 Minutes? 5 Days? Or 5 Months? YOU Decide...

…”targeted-delivery” of pain medication to give you fast pain relief…Next – There’s the whole new approach to lower back pain relief based on “Pattern-Recognition”…Faster, Safer, less than HALF the pain medication needed…and, Yes, Cheaper [...]