Pain

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Intense exercise treatment no better than simple advice, self-directed exercise at reducing pain from chronic whiplash

Results of a new trial of treatments for chronic whiplash pain, published in The Lancet, suggest that expensive, intense physiotherapy sessions do not show any additional benefit over a single physiotherapy session of education and advice with phone follow-up. The findings are in line with previous studies on the subject, which have reported minimal additional […]

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Gastric bypass surgery may diminish knee pain in obese patients

There is a known link between elevated body mass index (BMI) and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA). While patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery (GBS) — a procedure that closes off much of the stomach and causes food to bypass a portion of the small intestine─typically lose weight, the comparative impact of this weight loss […]

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New Save My Back Program Announced By Adjunct Professor Mike Nelson For Back Pain Sufferers Who Want To Cure Back …

If a cure for back pain, including lower back pain, upper back pain, middle back pain, side back pain, pain in back of neck, or a combination of back and neck pain, sounds good then these free pain relief tips from Mike Nelsons save my back program can help because they address what causes back […]

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