Many doctors still prescribe drugs instead of effective therapies for chronic back neck pain

Physical Health Chronic Pain
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I am always looking for natural ways to alleviate back pain; therefore, I found this article to be quite insightful on ways to alleviate this pain naturally versus taking meds;

"(NaturalNews) There are many alternative ways to treat back and neck pain apart from drugs that studies have shown to be effective. But many doctors continue to prescribe drug treatments to their patients anyway, according to new research out of Duke University and the University of North Carolina (UNC).

According to Dr. Adam Goode, PT, DPT, and his colleagues from the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, most people with chronic neck or back pain find little relief from conventional treatment options, which most often involve various strengths of pain medications. And the long-term effectiveness of these treatments is dismal, they concluded, based on systematic reviews published in The Cochrane Library and The Bone and Joint Decade (BJD) 2000 - 2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders: Noninvasive Interventions for Neck Pain...."

    http://www.naturalnews.com/030217_back_pain_drugs.html
        Source: NaturalNews.com, 10/29/10, by Jonathan Benson
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Thanks pup as usual you have the best information & my niece is going out w/a doctor thats at Duke University specializes in womens care, COOL huh.

Guess I need to join the back pain site.

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Thank you so much April! You're the best! Super cool that you're niece is dating a doctor at Duke. Very Nicely done!

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Very good info, thanks!!