Back Pain

Last Monday's Health Report
 There were two interesting stories on back pain. One discusses a completely new way which physiotherapists can regard back pain

 - here is the link:-
link to abc health report back pain

This article discusses Cognitive behavioural Therapy for lower back pain.  It says that changing the way you think about back pain, allows you to relax the muscles and move in a more healthy way.

There was also an article about having an MRI scan for back pain.  The article said it is prescribed when people have extreme pain and yet it does not show the level of pain someone is experiencing.  More importantly, when someone has an MRI that shows some pathology the patient feels worse, because they have evidence.  When the truth is that the MRI, in fact shows the sort of degeneration that is common and that otherpeople may not get the accompanying pain.

here is the link to this one:-

Link to the MRI article