Chronic low back pain: - Considering this is a major health concern among many of us, it is not surprising E-news readers have quite a lot to say about chronic low back pain....

Back pain: the dangers of surgery - More westerners than ever suffer from low back pain, but conventional treatments-surgery, injections, anaesthesia-often make the problem worse. - At some point in our lives, 80 per cent of all of us living in the West will suffer from disabling low back pain. Every year, 12 million Americans mak...

Back pain: the dangers of surgery - At the first sign of back pain . . . - If you have low back pain, instead of rushing to your own doctor, first try the most conservative management you can. Dr William Kirkaldy-Willis, reti...

Back pain doesn't benefit from x-rays - 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 impr...

Natural ways to prevent back pain - An amazing four out of five adults will experience significant low-back pain at some time during their life. The most common reason, say experts, is w...

Exercise gets back pain patients up and running - Patients with low back pain do better with an exercise programme than they do with their GP's advice, according to new research. ...

Back pain: no to steroids - The latest fad for chronic low back pain namely injecting steroids into the facet joints has just been proved useless. ...

Back pain: - Surgery doesn't help, but let's keep on doing it - 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...