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BACK PAIN |
Bulging Discs
A caller into the Dr.
Marc Darrow Radio Show
has aggravated a baseball
injury and his herniated discs,
Dr. Darrow discusses the
spraining of the iliolumbar ligament
and the examination and potential use of
Prolotherapy.
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Degenerative Disc
Disease
The aging process brings about degenerative changes to our ligaments,
tendons, and cartilage through the desiccation (the drying out) of
collagen. Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) refers to this process
occurring in the vertebral
discs. It just so happens that the
vertebral discs suffers through the most
dramatic of age-related changes of all connective tissue related to this
process. |
Exercises for back pain
A
MedX
workout twice a week for several weeks can alleviate back pain and
prevent back injuries, and a recent study indicates
that the MedX might even prevent back surgery. |
Failed Back Surgery
Perhaps the most
distressing is "failed back syndrome" -- an official-sounding term to
describe the pain of those poor patients whose surgical attempts have
failed to correct their problem. |
Genetic Back Pain?
When you ask me what is the best way to
prevent these back pain episodes that you have, the triad of healing in
my office is chiropractic to align the spine and then MedX treatment
which are big frame machines that were established by Arthur Jones who
built Nautilus equipment. |
Lower Back Pain
Because the structures of the
lower back are very complicated, and the specific symptoms of lower back
pain are highly varied, lower back pain is one of the most difficult to
diagnose and treat. |
Lumbar Stenosis
From
Dr. Darrow's radio show: The caller is a neurologist. "I am a neurologist,
I have a lot of patients that have lumbar stenosis with a lot of pain,
weakness, and loss of balance. For various reasons, medical problems,
they are not good surgical candidates or they do not want surgery. |
An article about the MedX machine that appeared in the Wall Street
Journal. |
Myths About Back Pain
While sometimes easy to diagnose
and treat, back pain can also be very complex. The source of the pain
can be due to a single, or multiple causes. Consequently, it can be
difficult to diagnose the cause of the pain. Each pain source has a wide
variety of treatment options that must be considered, and your treatment
may be completely unique from someone else. |
Radiculopathy
Blog
Radicular pain is described
as deep and usually constant. It follows the nerve down the leg and is
often accompanied by numbness or tingling and muscle weakness. |
Radiculopathy
Often I find that the radiating pain is not because of radiculopathy or
pinched nerve but because of a ligament that is loose or injured because
ligaments refer pain the same way. |
A Radio Show
Caller With Sciatica
Caller: I am having a lot of problems with my L5 disc. Every now and
then, and for no reason, I get a tremendous pain in that area, my back
freezes up and I can't do anything or straighten up. I wind up bent over
in half, it goes on for several days. |
Surgical Alternatives
Can Prolotherapy really fix a back problem where surgery cannot? |
Types of Back Pain
There are many structures in the lower back
that can cause severe pain. These include muscles, ligaments, tendons,
bones, joints and discs. The outer rim of the disc can be a source of
significant back pain due to its rich nerve supply and tendency towards
injury.
During our development, there is a great deal of overlap of nerve supply
to all of these structures. This makes it nearly impossible for the
brain to distinguish between injury to one structure versus another. |
Psychological
Factors in Back Pain
There is much to be said for reducing the stress load in
one's life when trying to deal with chronic back pain. |
Epidural Steroid Injections
Researchers writing in
the medical journal Pain Physician examined the effect of
various types of epidural steroid injections (interlaminar,
transforaminal, and caudal), in managing various types of
chronic spinal pain. |
Facet joint pain in patients after surgery
Researchers writing in the Archives of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation evaluated the prevalence of facet joint pain
in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) after surgical
intervention(s). |
Insomnia
and Back Pain
Researchers writing in the Journal of Sleep Research
say their "study aimed to provide an estimate of the prevalence
of 'clinical insomnia' in patients attending a specialist pain
clinic and identify factors associated with it." |
Low Back
Pain and Fear Avoidance
Researchers writing in the medical journal Physiotherapy
research international : the journal for researchers and
clinicians in physical therapy published findings on the
level of physical activity in patients with chronic
non-specific low back pain and its relation to
fear-avoidance beliefs and pain catastrophizing. |
Low Back Pain and Urinary
Incontinence in Women
Researchers writing in the medical journal Manual Therapy
say that in their study, Seventy-eight percent of the women with
low back pain reported urinary incontinence.
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Short-term effectiveness of
vertebral manipulation for treating chronic low back pain
Researchers writing in the French
medical journal Annales de réadaptation et de médecine physique
say that their study confirms the efficiency of short-term
vertebral manipulation for treating chronic low back pain. |
Transforaminal epidural
steroid injections
Researchers writing
in the medical journal Spine say their study demonstrates a
significant risk of serious neurologic injury after Cervical
transforaminal epidural steroid injections. |
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Instrumented Fusion And Chronic Low Back Pain
Researchers writing in the Scandinavian Journal of Caring
Sciences sought "to describe the pain experience at 1-8 years
follow-up of patients who were treated with instrumented fusion
because of chronic low back pain" |
Spinal Stenois Surgery
Researchers writing in Clinical orthopaedics and related
research ask "Is Spinal Stenosis Better Treated Surgically or Nonsurgically?" |
Discogenic Back Pain
Researchers writing in the medical journal Spine
published a review of randomized trials comparing surgical to
nonsurgical treatment of discogenic back pain. |
Back Pain and Memory Loss
Researchers writing in the medical journal Psychosomatic
Medicine say "In comparison to those not in pain, participants
with chronic pain had significantly impaired short-term
prospective memory, an effect which was evident even after
co-varying use of analgesics and other drugs." |
Radio
Blogs
Discussions with
callers to our radio program about
back problems |
