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 let your physio do the talking - BACK PAIN Let your physio do the talking It’s now proven that whatever good a physiotherapist can do will be done in the very first visit - and tha...

New drugs - New profits for old product - Most new drugs are simply old drugs with a bit of window dressing to justify double the price tag. Yet, the dangers multiply from these novel twists a...

New drugs: - Keeping those profits rolling in - The drugs industry thrives on novelty. Claims for the great new wonder drug fuel shareholder interest, which in turn pushes up the share price. Bett...

Say no to new drugs - When your doctor reaches for his prescription pad, possibly the most important question you can ask is the age of the drug he’s about to prescribe you...

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: 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...

Medical fascism - Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine devoted a good portion of an issue to chiropractic. The first study, which purported to examine whether...