Back Talking!

The year 2017 will be memorable for many reasons. Within the world of spines, lower backs, and necks there were some big advancements to help us move forward into 2018 with great momentum. The majority of patients that show up in my clinics have had previous episodes of lower back and neck pain. For many, the treatments that they had to help with those conditions may have done more harm than good. Their care was mismanaged along the way. Too often, drug therapies were the treatment of choice. Great for killing the pain, but not so good for fixing the cause of the pain. 2017 Back Pain Guidelines Get Updates In 2017, we saw 2 significant organizations either update their guidelines for the treatment of back pain, or create a complete new set of guidelines altogether for the treatment of back pain or pain alone. In January of 2017, the https://www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom/american-college-of-physicians-issues-guideline-for-treating-nonradicular-low-back-pain (American College of Physicians) updated their gui