American Chiropractic Association Warns About Unnecessary Tests for Back Pain
By Ed Coghlan. If you have lower back pain, you no doubt have gone through a battery of tests and exams and maybe even procedures.…
Back Pain
Chronic Back Pain - A New Book Argues Patients Are Left to Flounder
By Ed Coghlan. For the record, I hurt my back 40 years ago playing racquetball - and began four decades of trying to figure out…
VA Study Shows Yoga Helps Veterans’ Back Pain
By Staff. The Veterans Affairs Research Communications conducted a study to look at the effects yoga has on chronic low back pain specifically in military…
COOLIEF (Cooled Radiofrequency) treatment for Pain?
The following is an interview with Lisa Kudlacz, Vice President and General Manager, Interventional Pain Management at Halyard Health, regarding the company's COOLIEF* (Cooled Radiofrequency)…
JFK’s Back Problems: A Fresh Review of His Medical Records
By Staff. Scarlet fever, long-standing gastrointestinal disease, Addison's disease, and chronic back pain - these are some of the medical issues faced by the 35th…
If I Were Your Spine Surgeon…
Dr. David Hanscom. As a spine surgeon, who has been practicing surgery for over 30 years, I have attacked top-level fellowship spine problems with a…
What To Ask Your Spine Surgeon
By David Hanscom, MD. Dr. David Hanscom is a leading orthopedic spine surgeon at the Swedish Neuroscience Institute in Seattle, WA. Though he believes that…
FDA Fast Tracks Tanezumab for Treatment of Osteoarthritis and Chronic Low Back Pain
By Staff. The FDA has granted Fast Track designation to pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Eli Lilly for their jointly developed drug called tanezumab. The investigational drug…