<?xml version="1.0" ?><?xml-stylesheet title="XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl" href="viewRss.xsl"?><rss version="2.0">  <channel>    <title>Back pain | What Doctors Don't Tell You</title>    <link>http://www.wddty.com/back-pain</link>    <description></description>    <language>en-gb</language>    <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>    <ttl>20</ttl>    <item>      <title>Back Pain: Acupuncture is the best thing you can do</title>      <description>Acupuncture is the best way of alleviating chronic back pain – and it’s far better than any conventional treatment. Twice as many back pain sufferers benefited from acupuncture as those who took a painkiller – and they enjoyed months without pain afterwards.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-acupuncture-is-the-best-thing-you-can-do.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-acupuncture-is-the-best-thing-you-can-do.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:03:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Exercises that may help back pain</title>      <description>An overview of the most helpful exercises for alleviating back pain.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/exercises-that-may-help-back-pain.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/exercises-that-may-help-back-pain.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:43:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Nutritional supplements that may help back pain</title>      <description>The most important supplements for the treatment of chronic pain are the B-complex and C vitamins.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/nutritional-supplements-that-may-help-back-pain.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/nutritional-supplements-that-may-help-back-pain.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:40:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Other things that may work for back pain</title>      <description>Alternative treatments for back pain. </description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/other-things-that-may-work-for-back-pain.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/other-things-that-may-work-for-back-pain.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:37:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>What doesn't work for back pain</title>      <description>There’s plenty that will be suggested that won’t do a thing to alleviate the underlying problem.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/what-doesn-t-work-for-back-pain.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/what-doesn-t-work-for-back-pain.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:33:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>What works for back pain</title>      <description>The two most effective things you can do to alleviate back pain is to stay active – and so exercising the muscles that support the spine – and to have some form of spinal manipulation, either with a registered osteopath or chiropractor.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/what-works-for-back-pain.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/what-works-for-back-pain.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:31:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Other causes of back pain</title>      <description>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 by a duodenal ulcer or acute pancreatitis.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/other-causes-of-back-pain.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/other-causes-of-back-pain.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Back pain and its causes</title>      <description>No area presents more of a problem to doctors than the back. Second only to head pain, disabling low back pain strikes 80 per cent of us during our lifetimes, causes millions of lost work days and accounts for a steady stream of presentations to general practitioners.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-and-its-causes.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-and-its-causes.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:26:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>How you beat back pain</title>      <description>You can and you will beat back pain. On these pages you will discover how.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/how-you-beat-back-pain.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/how-you-beat-back-pain.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 10:16:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Epidurals: They’re useless, researchers discover after 50 years</title>      <description>The epidural is standard medical practice for patients with sciatic back pain. </description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/epidurals-they-re-useless-researchers-discover-after-50-years.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/epidurals-they-re-useless-researchers-discover-after-50-years.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 05:09:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>The Lunch Challenge: Acupuncture works, so who’s for humble pie?</title>      <description>There’s a fair bit of resistance in conventional medicine to the ‘energy medicines’, such as acupuncture.  One specialist once remarked:  “Show me the meridian points in the patient’s body and I’ll buy you lunch”.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/the-lunch-challenge-acupuncture-works-so-who-s-for-humble-pie.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/the-lunch-challenge-acupuncture-works-so-who-s-for-humble-pie.html</guid>      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:51:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Natural ways to prevent back pain</title>      <description>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 work-related back injuries, but activities at home and at play can also result in back pain.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/natural-ways-to-prevent-back-pain.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/natural-ways-to-prevent-back-pain.html</guid>      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>A chance read leads to cure</title>      <description>Some 10 years ago, I had an injury caused by a heavy fall when one leg fell into a rabbit burrow. That was the start of my nightmare.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/a-chance-read-leads-to-cure.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/a-chance-read-leads-to-cure.html</guid>      <pubDate>Tue, 1 Jan 2002 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Back pain treatments at a glance</title>      <description>...</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-treatments-at-a-glance.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-treatments-at-a-glance.html</guid>      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Aug 1999 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Back pain - The curve ball symptom</title>      <description>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 areas of the body including heart disea ...</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/back-pain_1.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/back-pain_1.html</guid>      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Aug 1999 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Back pain: leave well alone</title>      <description>The best course of treatment for acute back pain may be to leave well alone and let it get better on its own, according to French researchers. ...</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-leave-well-alone.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-leave-well-alone.html</guid>      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Apr 1994 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Back pain: the dangers of surgery - Epidurals and back pain</title>      <description>Epidural anaesthesia for pain relief during childbirth and for outpatient 'awake' surgery has been found to cause a high incidence of long-term back pain.</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-the-dangers-of-surgery_2.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-the-dangers-of-surgery_2.html</guid>      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Nov 1993 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>    <item>      <title>Back pain: the dangers of surgery - At the first sign of back pain . . .</title>      <description>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, retired emeritus professor of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine in Canada</description>      <link>http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-the-dangers-of-surgery.html</link>      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.wddty.com/back-pain-the-dangers-of-surgery.html</guid>      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Nov 1993 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>      <category>Health</category>    </item>  </channel></rss>