There’s an interesting article featured in the Pioneer Press on MRI in the treatment for low back pain which questions the possibility of it’s overuse in some states in the US. During 2009, a high percentage of outpatients with low back pain at Minnesota hospitals underwent a MRI without first trying alternatives that were both […]
Lower back pain is one of the highest causes of workplace absenteeism. Lower back pain or sciatica, as it is sometimes known will usually entail visit to the GP often resulting in the prescription of chemical painkillers and (until recently) rest. Continued discomfort, and further visits to the GP, may lead to a referral to […]
Lower back pain sometimes known as Lumbago or Sciatica is a common disorder affecting some 60% of the adult population, seeking to get rid of back pain. So great is the problem, that in the UK alone, some 150 million man days are lost each year in industry, as a result of absenteeism attributed to […]