What Doctors Don't Tell YouIn reply to the bit about physiotherapy and its ineffectiveness as put forth by the BMJ study (WDDTY vol 15 no 10, page 6), as a chiropractor, I am aware of these studies that say people get the same results with one treatment or exercises alone...
Reader's Corner
Reader's Corner
Reader's Corner
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 ...
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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
BACK PAIN Let your physio do the talking
It’s now proven that whatever good a physiotherapist can do will be done in the very first visit - and that's likely to be the simple advice to stay active.
Neck pain is a common problem, and one that tends to affect more women than men. But how are you going to treat it? The three most popular options are: your family doctor (a ‘wait-and-see’ approach with advice on ergonomics, possibly...
Hardly any form of physiotherapy has been proven to work and there is sufficient evidence to suggest that ultrasound therapy is of no benefit at all, a controversial Dutch study has concluded. ...
