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 ...
Eighteen months ago, Mr J.R., a middle-aged truck driver, came to me with mysterious pains in his lower back and right thigh that had started more than three years earlier. He’d undergone MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) investigations to check the...
Epidural anaesthesia for pain relief during childbirth and for outpatient 'awake' surgery has been found to cause a high incidence of long-term back pain.
At some point in life, 80 per cent of all adults will suffer back pain - and mostly in the lumbar region. The lumbar vertebrae lie near the base of the spine and are the major supports of the body’s weight. They are also the site of the lumbar...
