A new practice of sound therapy is conservative in a medical sense, but radically shakes up our perceptions of healing and the role we can all take in someone’s recovery from a back injury. The therapy uses words and sounds to engage with a person’s thoughts and emotions to promote pain relief and healing of lower back pain.
Sound therapy is non-invasive. It is effective because it treats t…
Anecdotal evidence is showing there is a link between back pain and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Although around 1 in 5 Australians are thought to have IBS, a small percentage of these people will go on to experience associated back pain.
Researchers at Sydney’s Royal North Shore hospital are moving closer to interrupting chronic back pain with an exciting new innovation, which is currently in trial stages.
The trial centres on the Saluda spinal implant, otherwise known as a spinal cord stimulator, that sits at the base of the spine, and slightly to the right. Its job is to monitor the electrical impulses travelling across t…
Melbourne scientists have found a way to return mobility to paralysed limbs. The futuristic technology is known by the term, bionic spine.
The bionic spine is a small electrode device used to interpret electrical signals from the brain compelling an exoskeleton encasing the limbs, to walk. What sets this technology apart from predecessors isn’t the amazing capability to move artificial limb…
The Healthy Communities Research Centre at UQ Ipswich is calling for a national focus on “health literacy” following the release of findings which reveal that most Australians don’t have the basic knowledge to keep themselves healthy.
The recently-released findings are based on the 2006 Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Healthy Communi…
A Short History of the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury
Accounts of spinal cord injuries and their treatment date back to ancient times, even though there was little chance of recovery from such a devastating injury. The earliest is found in an Egyptian manuscript written in approximately 1700 B.C. that describes two spinal cord injuries involving fracture or dislocation of the neck vertebrae…
Scientists from the University of Queensland have discovered the molecular mechanisms that allow severed nerves in roundworms to fuse back together may hold the secret to treating nerve injuries in humans. By combining neurosurgery with molecular biology, project leader at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) Dr Massimo Hilliard, said the findings could help to treat conditions.
Research results just released from the University of Sydney shows that depression can cause back pain. This new research uncovers a deeper level of the relationship between pain and depression – it is old news that nearly half of back pain patients experience depressive symptoms; we can all understand that persons suffering chronic pain would feel mental distress.
When it comes to understanding pain, the lack of an objective measure is often seen as a barrier. Because each individual experiences pain differently, using the brain to further understand pain can be a difficult method.
More than 50% of Australians living with back pain develop mental health issues after having chronic pain, according to a leading orthopaedic surgeon from the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research.
Professor Melloh, quoted at theconversation.com, stated that it was plausible that the stress of severe back pain had influenced the mind, and that this had led to depression and other…
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