Posts tagged Overtreated
Pain in the back widely overtreated
Aug 25th
Pain in the back widely overtreated
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A recent estimate has Americans spending a staggering $86 billion a year to care for aching backs. The money covers MRIs, pain pills, nerve blocks, even acupuncture.
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Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society
May 23rd
Product Description
Nortin Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain in people who are otherwise healthy. Hadler terms the low back pain that everyone suffers at one time or another “regional back pain.” In this book, he addresses the history and treatment of the ailment with the healthy skepticism that has become his trademark, taking the “Hadlerian” approach to backaches and the backache t… More >>
Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society
