What Doctors Don't Tell YouI 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...
Chiropractors are a popular choice for Americans suffering low back pain. But at least one study indicates that they are the most expensive option, because of frequent follow-up visits, and are no ...
BACK PAIN: It's women who suffer
Doctors who insist on bed rest for patients with acute back pain are probably making the situation worse. Instead, they should be sending the sufferer to a physiotherapist or chiropractor, the UK ...
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
A report from the Health Technology Assessment programme shows that routine early x-ray examinations for low back pain are expensive and confer little benefit. ...
More comments on this widespread problem. One chiropractor writes in lambasting quick-fix, cheap answers to fixing back pain, such as the exercises that were suggested by readers in last week's e-news. He warns that these exercises are not only...
