This recent study from the British Medical Journal shows the common procedure of multiple injections of hyaluronan into the knee joint from osteoarthritis is no better than placebo and is not effective.
We unfortunately commonly see medical procedures used extensively for long periods of time before being subjected to more rigorous studies and being shown to be ineffective or much less effective than previously thought.

Intra-articular hyaluronan is without clinical effect in knee osteoarthritis: a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of 337 patients followed for 1 year

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Cost and use of conservative management of lumbar disc herniation before surgical discectomy

A recent study published in the Spine Journal examined the costs of treating back disorders for the 90 days before disc surgery. They looked at approximately 30,000 patients that met the inclusion criteria. There was over $100 million of charges with 32% for injections and 31% for diagnostic imaging giving these 2 categories 63% or almost 2/3 of the presurgery charges. Physical therapy services were 11% of the charges and chiropractic treatment was only 2% of the charges.
Although these percentages do not reflect amounts of treatment, they are similar to many cost-effectiveness studies that show better cost effectiveness for chiropractic care compared to medical care.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20359960

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Strokes Among Young

Strokes are the second leading cause of death. Woman have a much higher chance of dying from stroke than from breast cancer or all cancers combined. Now we unfortunately are seeing increasing rates in the young according to a findings reported at the 2010 International Stroke Conference. The best way to prevent strokes is still eating healthy, getting adequate exercise, and stopping smoking.

A new study in the Pain Journal of the American Pain Society has found that comsumption of ginger results in moderate to large reductions in muscle pain following exercise induced muscle injury. These findings are similar to those showing effectiveness of ginger on the pain of osteoarthrosis/osteoarthritis.
These findings are also important because many athletes subject themselves to the side effects of NSAID drugs on a regular basis thinking that they will help with post exercise muscle pain, when in fact no study has shown that NSAID's are effective for this condition.