Chiropractic - Lower back pain - Dear WDDTY: Your news item on chiropractic was written implying that WDDTY is antichiropractic globally. I take exception to my profession being compa...

Brittle bones - Some hard truths about preventing bone loss - Osteoporosis, which means ‘porous bones’, describes any condition that reduces bone mass. Symptoms include leg and foot cramps; height loss; lower-bac...

Fosamax and spinal anaesthesia - Q About a year ago, I was given a spinal injection for a suspected hernia which has left me with a very painful lower back. Have you come across other...

So you think you need . . . surgery for a slipped disc - Lower-back pain is the most common pain-related condition in the West (Radiographics, 1998; 18: 621-33) and, in a fair proportion of cases, the culpri...

So you think you need . . . surgery for a slipped disc - Lower-back pain is the most common pain-related condition in the West (Radiographics, 1998; 18: 621-33) and, in a fair proportion of cases, the culpri...

Back pain - The curve ball symptom - By treating back pain as a disease on its own, medicine has gone down many blind alleys. But many cases of back pain are only symptoms of disorders in...

Other causes of back pain - Backache may occasionally involve organs that are not thought to be directly related to the neck and spine. For instance, low back pain can be caused...

Back pain - Illness moves in mysterious ways, but who would have thought that back pain could be linked to an exposure to cigarette smoke as a child?