Alternative Therapy for Lower Back Pain
Back pain, most prevalently lower back pain is one of the common medical complaints, affecting almost eighty percent of the total population. Most of us suffer from an episode of lower back pain during our life span, but sometimes after an incident, the probability of experiencing back pain might become episodic. Back pain can vary from slight, constant pain to an unforeseen, severe pain. If back pain occurs suddenly and lasts from a few days to few weeks then it is called, acute back pain. But if it persists for more than a three months then it is considered as chronic pain.
In this regard, it is indispensable to take the help of a professional health care practitioner. The popularity of alternative therapy has progressively increased, and now it is considered as the most reliable pain management treatment for lower back pain.
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A Call to Revolutionize Chronic Pain
A recent report from the May Day Fund calls for chronic pain to be addressed in healthcare reform and better training of doctors on treating it because it is estimated that one out of every four Americans suffers from chronic pain. This ranges from headaches to back pain to joint pain.
The Mayday Fund, a family foundation dedicated to reducing human suffering caused by pain, convened a special committee to explore issues related to pain and the practice of medicine. The panel of adult and pediatric pain experts, which included anesthesiologists, neurologists, primary care doctors, emergency physicians, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, and patient advocates, deliberated at a one-day meeting held in Washington, D.C in June, 2009. The report is an outcome of that meeting.
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