Readers Digest Magazine reported August 17, 2011 on four over-prescribed treatments and tests. The first listed was imaging for lower-back pain. [...]
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In a study of 30,000 women and men, researchers found that those who were obese had about 20 percent increased risk for chronic pain in the low back and neck/shoulder area. Exercising for as little as one hour a week or more helped to lower that increased chronic pain risk. [...] New research projects look at physical therapy for osteoarthritis, back pain and total joint replacement. [...] Research shows that early physical therapy for back pain is associated with less need for injections, surgery, and physician visits. [...] |
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