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Chiropractic – “No Better Than Placebo” 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 [...] 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? 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] 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! [...] Hulk Hogan had back surgery Monday, 9/20/2010. But – with new alternative back pain treatment options, was a $20K radio frequency ablation really necessary? [...] Will an MRI help find the cause of your back pain – IF you have no ‘Red Flags?’ Surprisingly, the answer is a qualified “No.” A recent review in Lancet, covering the randomized clinical studies on MRI for back pain found no benefit to routine x-rays, MRIs or CAT scans in people with back pain. Unless you’ve got [...] |
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