Cud we move Low Back Pain & Disk Injuries here?

[hudzaacf]

Mike,

Did request by email, but see others have had more success with this approach.

I refer to the thread I started on the subject in General Health Discussions before these on specific conditions appeared.

 

[SCyy S]

Sorry - I did try. Seemed to work for others. The info is around here somewhere, will try & back track if there's the interest. And may get around to rehashing at some point.

Would be a bit more entheustiastic about it, but it's the sort of problem I treat every day & 90% of the time it's very simple mechanical problem, that with treatment & advice resolves fairly quickly (disk injuries take a little longer).

(I'm not saying come see me for treatment - any osteopath should be equipped to do likewise, chiropractors, the more highly qualified physios & manual therpists.)

Also, not helped by the fact that last week was appparently National Back Pain week, which was apparently rounded off on Sunday by an article in the Times, that essentially says - it's all in the head. No doubt this was based on allopthic medical research, whereas it's been so long that they actually put there hands on people it's surprising that folks even take interest of what they say. But they seem to.

You get a few folks that have such a blind faith in modern medicine that they still believe that if they take the tablets & lie there long enough the problem will go away, but most - well - they're prepared to actively do something about it, but they won't if they don't know any better.

The irony being is that, they're not representing what the research says or even the latest guidelines that GP's are advised on.

 

[cpxzysgv]

[X(]here is the link for the article in the Sunday Times. I have also included the last two paragraphs - phooey. An email from me to the journalist who wrote this I think.

[>:]Not ONE mention of massage or other therapies that may help - and DO help - and a chuck away line about osteo/chiropractic/physio.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-847324,00.html



Neither was there much good news for chiropractors, osteopaths and physiotherapists. Manipulation might have some short-term benefit, but it made very little difference in the long term. Diagnosis was not important, and sophisticated tests were a waste of time. All that counted was the realisation that recovery from back pain was more a matter of mental state than of treatment or physical biology.

Lots of fine words, lots of "holistic perspectives", lots of hoping that "the correct message now goes out to those whose view of back pain is out of date"; but not quite so much in the way of decisive action. Even before the conference happened, the HSE had approved publication by the Stationery Office of an official advice leaflet, The Back Book, which explains in nursery language the importance of being a coper. ("Back pain need not cripple you unless you let it!" "Back pain is usually not due to anything serious." "It's your back - get going!")

In the end, there remains a single indivisible atom of truth. There is no escape. For one reason or another - psychological, physical, occult - back pain, like grief, is deeply woven into the human experience. It is, as Professor Wheeler reminds us, "part of the evolutionary heritage". Grin if you can. Bear it you must.