The Back Pain Blog

Acupuncture Served As A Fatigue And Pain Treatment

Craig — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:23:43 +0000

By Rachelle Holmes of Chicago Breast Augmentation and Chicago Liposuction Center, MetropolitanMDs Acupuncture is one of the oldest forms of health care and treatments on the planet, but it still serves its purposes even today. Now, while inserting dozens of needles into your body doesn’t seem like the most fun way to treat ailments, acupuncture is [...]

Tips For Maintaining Correct Posture While Using A Computer

Craig — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:59:10 +0000

While the computer age has done wonders for our society in general, it certainly hasn’t done us back pain sufferers any favors. More and more of us are spending time in front of a pc, whether it be for work or just surfing the world wide web, in fact I’m not physic but I bet you are [...]

Serotonin And Osteoporosis – Promising Research Results

Craig — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:42:26 +0000

Source – Columbia University Press Release Finding, in Animal Model, Offers Proof of Principle that Inhibiting Serotonin in the Gut Could Become a Novel Treatment for Tens of Millions of Osteoporosis Sufferers. NEW YORK (February 7, 2010) – An investigational drug that inhibits serotonin synthesis in the gut, administered orally once daily, effectively cured osteoporosis in mice [...]

Common Reasons For Back Pain

Craig — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:59:07 +0000

I don’t know about yourself but when I started suffering from back pain I thought it would be a simple case of going to my doctor and explaining what was going on and be handed a prescription and life would be good once again in a day or two. Yeah right! Nearly five years later and [...]

The 7-Day Back Pain Cure Book Give Away

Craig — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:46:34 +0000

The 7 Day Back Pain Cure Jesse Cannone from the Healthy Back Institute has just released the first thousand copies of his much anticipated book The 7-Day Back Pain Cure No, it’s not a 7 day plan to have you out of pain (wouldn’t that be nice!) but what you will learn from inside this book is - Several [...]

8 Ways To Help Control Chronic Pain (Part Two)

Craig — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:12:44 +0000

In Part One of 8 Ways To Help Control Chronic Pain I explained that these suggestions are a culmination of almost four years of seeking treatment for my back pain and although there is nothing out of the ordinary here, I thought a reminder of the ‘basics’ of how to deal with pain might be [...]

Acupuncture Needles No Better Than Toothpicks?

Craig — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:22:45 +0000

As reported in the U.S.News and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a study has been carried out using a group of 638 back pain sufferers and four different treatments; The first group received individualized acupuncture treatment from a practitioner, The second group received a ’standardized’ acupuncture regimen, The third group received a sham acupuncture treatment where toothpicks [...]

8 Ways To Help Control Chronic Pain (Part One)

Craig — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:34:48 +0000

I have put this list together from studying the literature we were given at a pain management workshop that I attended last year and from the advice I have received over the years from Physio’s, Chiropractors etc. Certainly these are not going to suit everyone and are not a substitute for pain medication, and although [...]

Can Back Pain Be ‘Emotional’?

Craig — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:54:26 +0000

The relationship between emotions and pain has long been documented and many theories have been proposed to explain why this ‘manifestation of physical pain’ occurs. Certainly when our emotions are difficult to deal with we feel ‘pain’ to a certain degree, but can this produce ‘physical’ pain? Being a proud ‘typical male’ I personally have trouble [...]

Treatment Guide For Low Back Pain

Craig — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:13:26 +0000

Although the following article is quite old, dating back to October 2007, I believe that it contains many relevant points that seem to be lost on the majority of General Practitioners that see patients with lower back pain. I may be a bit over-critical of our doctors here, but certainly from my experiences with a number of different doctors [...]