Sunday, September 1, 2013

Back Pain And Ways To Treat It

By Bob Nagidul


More and more back pain sufferers are coming into hospitals around the country. While this is one of the leading causes of emergency room visits for adults, people sometimes do not look at the numbers for the youth in our hospitals. Many kids under 18 are coming into emergency rooms complaining of back and neck pain.

It is for this reason that it is hard to treat on a general level. When however people have a specific problem or the doctors know what is wrong, there can be effective treatment. Most times however it can take a person a long time to get to this point. By the time they have x-rays, MRIs, or a doctor finally determines that they know what the problem is, the patient will have suffered through months of discomfort.

People in this country go to the emergency room for too many simple ailments it is said. This is another reason that reports claim high numbers of complaints for back pain. Although this is the case there is no reason or no way to say that any of the complaints are not real because it is too hard to determine the root cause.

People in discomfort will often try anything to make things easier. This is why they sometimes make the wrong choices and end up taking medication they shouldn't. Or why they have a surgery when they shouldn't. That is the case with many of these people. They will be told to have a surgery so they do. But they really do not need one.

Obviously there are a lot of problems that come along with back pain. For the person dealing with it as well as those around them. The country has been dealing with this for some time now. With the health industry going through massive changes lately as well this only complicates matter even more for people. Sometimes people just need to ease up and allow people to do what they need to do in order to be comfortable and enjoy their lives.

There has even been a lot of these stories hitting the news media and once that happens you know it is something that has gotten out of hand. The doctors were unable to control the situation and doctors around the country were feeling the sting. They were even starting to be watched by state officials regarding their prescribing practices.

Back pain sufferers are everyday people just like you and me. They are people who suffer from discomfort that they sometimes do not even know where it came from. All they know is that it hurts and a lot of times people either do not want to help or they cannot help because of what they think is happening with the patient.




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