The rest is all labeled as “non-specific”. Reviews have shown that a definitive cause is only identified in about 5-15% of people with back pain. The combination of those kinds of things may actually be in some cases doing more harm than good.”Ī major part of the problem is that, in the majority of cases, mainstream medical practitioners aren’t even able to figure out what’s causing their patients’ pain. “There is a combination of side effects and unnecessary treatments and labeling people as being fragile when they’re really not.
Deyo, MD, summed it up nicely in Watch Your Back!: How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less. Unfortunately, many of the mainstream medical approaches to treating back pain are minimally effective at best, and may actually be doing more harm than good.
Though the conclusion may be uncomfortable, the medical community must bear the responsibility for this, for it has been distressingly narrow in its approach to the problem.” “There is probably no other medical condition which is treated in so many different ways and by such a variety of practitioners as back pain. That’s why experts like NYU Professor John Sarno have questioned why these surgeries, injections, and pain medications are still so widely prescribed for low back pain. Case in point: surgery has recently been completely dropped as a recommendation for lumbar disc herniations by NICE so have corticosteroid injections. The JAMA report is the latest to suggest that the nation is losing its battle against back pain, and that many (if not most) popular mainstream medical treatments are ineffective or overused.
“Has nobody noticed the embarrassing fact that science is about to clone a human being, but it still can’t cure the pain of a bad back?” Even so, the percentage of people with impaired function because of back problems has drastically increased over the past two decades, even after controlling for an aging population.Īuthor Marni Jackson scrutinized our poor return on investment in treating pain conditions in Pain: The Science and Culture of Why We Hurt. The use of MRI scans, narcotic painkillers, injections, and invasive spine surgery have all grown by several hundred percent.
That’s more than twice as much as we spent 20 years ago. That’s the conclusion of a report from The Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that Americans spend an estimated $380 billion every year treating spine and joint pain. Grant Radermacher Is it time to rethink how we approach back pain?Īmericans are spending more money than ever to treat low back pain, but as a chiropractor in Brookfield WI, I can tell you that our spine problems – collectively – aren’t getting any better.
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