What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ I have been suffering from intense pain in my coccyx for several years. The pain started after a bad epidural and the subsequent therapeutic blood patch, but became infinitely worse after back surgery four years ago. I have sought help from...
Illness moves in mysterious ways, but who would have thought that back pain could be linked to an exposure to cigarette smoke as a child?
Suddenly you get a twinge (or worse) in your back. So you go to see a physiotherapist, who recommends a course of treatment. After six or so visits, you'll be right as rain, he tells you.
But new research reckons you're just wasting your money. Whate
Psychological distress may not necessarily be the cause of back pain, but the longer the pain persists, the more psychological factors will predominate and the more psychological methods should be ...
By treating back pain as a disease on its own, medicine has gone down many blind alleys. But many cases of back pain are only symptoms of disorders in other areas of the body including heart disea ...
I was very interested to read your article on back pain (WDDTY vol 10, no 5). Please allow me to comment, as a musculoskeletal medicine specialist, who is also an osteopath, with 27 years' experience.
Patients with low back pain believe they are getting 'good' care if there are sent for X-rays in spite of the fact that the X-ray does nothing to improve their condition. ...
One popular catchphrase that is often aimed at doctors in general, and at consultants in particular, is: 'If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail'. In practice, this means that an oncologist will recommend chemotherapy or radiation, and a...
