2016 is going to be the year the treatment of back pain changes forever. A study by Dr Victor May from the University of Vermont confirms what researchers have long observed: that chronic pain needs psychological treatment for the patient to recover. Chronic pain, especially back pain, is one of the largest and growing medical problems in the western world.Â
Q&A With Dr. David Dines of Hospital for Special Surgery David Dines, MD, is an attending orthopedic surgeon of the sports medicine and shoulder service at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and at the hospital’s Physician Office in Uniondale, Long Island.
A new study from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has identified a unique protein complex that can be used to predict whether an epidural steroid injection will help relieve pain caused by a herniated disc in the lower spine.
Roughly a quarter of all people with back pain have a herniated disc, and approximately 90 percent of herniated discs occur in the lower back. …
In an approach that could become a new treatment for the 10 to 20 percent of people whose broken bones fail to heal, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that transplantation of adult stem cells can improve healing of fractures.
Adult stem cells are specialized cells with the ability to regenerate tissue in response to damage. However, many patients lack …
DeCODE Genetics & Roche Diagnostics announce that they have identified specific variations within a single gene that increase the risk of Osteoporosis.
With the on-going development of DNA-based diagnostics, the companies are analysing these and other markers (an identifiable physical location on a chromosome whose inheritance can be monitored) to create a test that can identify individu…
Testes need to be cool. That is the one characteristic that makes them different from all other parts of the body. Women have no equivalent. Sperm counts are dropping in most western cultures and couples generally take longer to conceive.
High testicular temperature frequently contributes to male infertility. Poor semen analysis is commonly found in truck drivers, taxi drivers and other men …
More than half of people with arthritis are under 65 years of age, and nearly 6000 children live with juvenile arthritis, according to new research. Where osteoarthritis is more commonly associated with adults and often intensifies with age, a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that around 160,000 young adults and nearly 1.7 million people aged 35-64 suffer.
Spinal cord damage blocks the routes that the brain uses to send messages to the nerve cells that control walking. Until now, doctors believed that the only way for injured patients to walk again was to re-grow the long nerve highways that link the brain and base of the spinal cord. For the first time, a UCLA study shows that the central nervous system can reorganize itself and follow new pathw…
Australian cricketing legend, Michael Slater, urges young men to ‘man up’ and bat for their backs
Research released today reveals a new threat to the stability of Australian families and love lives. The study by Arthritis Australia reveals the spinal health of Aussie blokes is ricocheting into all aspects of their lives, challenging more than just their pain thresholds.
Of the 2.3 million…
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues.  More than 1.3 million adults in the U.S. suffer from RA with 75% of those afflicted being women. Patients with RA experience pain, stiffness, swelling, and deterioration of joints. Severe chronic pain accompanied by progressive joint destruction, disability, and disfigurem…
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