The other night I arrived home and The NBC
Evening News with Brian Williams was on our family television. They went
into a segment on "Alternative care for back pain". I thought
this could be really good or really bad. To my surprise, it wasn't really
either, but just dumbfounding.
The segment began with a woman who had an electrical devise
implanted into her back so she could effectively use electrical stimulation on
her back to control her pain after two failed lumbar surgeries.
Invasive Lumbar Surgery Should Only Be Approached After All Other Forms of Treatment Have Failed
Now I
have no issue with this scenario, but as they continued to talk about this
treatment, they brushed past the TWO FAILED LUMBAR SURGERIES. This is not
a treatment that someone should just jump into because their back hurts.
This therapy is after other forms of treatment have failed. I even
heard a woman at the gym talking to her personal trainer about approaching her
doctor about this procedure, and she to date had only tried some medications a
couple of times and one course of physical therapy.
Core Strengthening is Not Limited to Just a Particular Technique
The second part of the segment was about core strengthening.
Perfect. The segment specifically endorsed Pilates, which is fine,
but core strengthening is not limited to just that particular technique.
The third part of the segment dealt with acupuncture, and how it
can help some people. True, it can help some people, but like everything
it doesn't help everyone, and you need to make sure you are going to a licensed
professional, whom hopefully you have received a personal referral too.
So at this point I though here comes the segment on Chiropractic...
Essentially Chiropractic was the Original Alternative to Medicine
Nothing. Back to Brian Williams. How is it possible to
do a segment on "Alternative care for back pain" without
Chiropractic. Essentially Chiropractic was the original alternative
to medicine. It was one of the largest factors in NIH establishing the
Alternative Health division, and to be ignored for what it is best known for,
dumbfounding. I suppose I should try to look at it as maybe this reporter
thought of Chiropractic as completely mainstream and the norm, and therefore no
longer alternative, but some how I think that might be a stretch.
Chiropractic should be the first choice of anyone with back pain, whether
or not it shows up on the evening news.
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