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Curing back pain is a process and needs to be dealt with appropriately. Most people make a series of mistakes when dealing with back pain, the classic mistake is continuing to do what does not work!

If you have visited your practitioner for a period of at least 3 months and you are not getting a continual improvement and feeling better, then you need to take a different direction and be referred out. At the very least, you should insist on getting a monthly evaluation of your progress. ...

Options for getting rid of back pain form part of a multibillion dollar industry, and while many people spend money on prescription medication for short term use; others will spend many thousands of dollars seeking alternative kinds of treatments from a variety of different health professionals.
Lack of exercise and a sedentary lifestyle are a leading cause of chronic back pain and for many sufferers you will be guilty of just this. More than 100 million Americans currently suffer with ...

After being in pain for so long now i have joined this back pain forum, It amazes me that a prolapsed disc sufferers have to wait so long to eventually get to an MRI scan, It can take up to 8months and sometimes more from seeing a doctor, Being referred to a consultant then a wait of a minimum of 5 weeks for a scan then another 4 weeks to get results from your consultant, That if you are a NHS patient. I think its ridiculous They don't know like we do how much pain we are really feeling. And ...

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Contrary to popular belief, there is a lot of difference between a bulging disc and a herniated disc. People tend to believe that a herniated disc is a bulging disc or a slipped disk. Here, we will describe the difference, but will concentrate more on a bulging disc.

The spine is made up of thirty-three vertebrae, twenty-seven of which are separated from each other by an ‘Intervertebral disc’. The function of the spinal column is to protect the spinal chord – the nerves that connect

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Having suffered from acute sciatica I received emergency back surgery only to find that my lower back pain went through the roof when I came out of anaesthetic. I ended up on morphine just to cope with the terrible spasms.

A few people commented rather unhelpfully that it was all in my mind. I have done so much research to find a lasting cure. Being told it is in the mind when the physical pain is so real is so patrionising and unhelpful. We need to be considerate and open to all ...