They’re everywhere – you see movers with them, people who work with heavy objects have them, even people in homes if they have a history of lower back pain have them handy: lumbar support belts.
Now – surprise, surprise – there’s news that the lumbar supports may not be helping you with your lower back pain. You know – it’s really frustrating if you’re someone living with chronic pain to be told (often!) that what you have been doing to help yourself is not so good for you after all.
According to a review written about in the article Lumbar Supports …read more

 
Alternative treatments, those outside of mainstream Western medicine, are often viewed with suspicion, if not downright ridicule. However, as alternative medicine is becoming more popular, researchers are beginning to take them more seriously and are conducting research to determine if they really are effective.
Prolotherapy (proliferative injection therapy) is one treatment that is gaining popularity. This article from January 2007, Prolotherapy for low back pain, written by Simon Dagenais, PhD, reviews study findings of prolotherapy, the type of agent used, how often and how many injections were given, and if there were any other treatments done at the same time.
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