Sciatica treatment is of no benefit, researchers find - A practice that has been used since the 1950s to treat sciatica is of no benefit and does not reduce the need for surgery, researchers have found. ...

Epidurals: pain after birth - Women who have had epidurals during labour and birth are more likely to experience long term problems like backache and headache. ...

Epidurals: They’re useless, researchers discover after 50 years - The epidural is standard medical practice for patients with sciatic back pain.

Physiotherapy is of no benefit, claim researchers - 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,...

Two years ago, i was given the hard sell by my hospital to opt for a "revolutionary mobile epidural for a trouble-free, pain-free delivery". - I agreed. Six hours after I went into labour, I felt the anesthetist jab in the epidural needle extremely fast. My right leg shot out sideways in an...

Epidurals follow on to forceps - Pregnant women given epidurals during labour are more likely to experience a forceps delivery even if they are given a less powerful anesthetic which...

Epidurals likely to lead to antibiotics for the newborn - Babies born to mothers who had an epidural during labour are four times as likely to have antibiotics because of the fear of infection. ...

There is such a thing as a 'good' epidural - I was very interested to read your article on back pain (WDDTY vol 10, no 5). Please allow me to comment, as a musculoskeletal medicine specialist, wh...