Prescription drug overdose cases skyrocket at emergency departments

This is an article from the American Medical Association news website concerning the dramatic increase of ER visits due to prescription drugs including opioids such as Vicoden and Tylenol 3. There has been increasing criticism in the medical literature concerning the increasing prescribing of opioid painkillers for back pain and joint pain because the research shows they are not nearly as beneficial for non cancer pain and they have such serious side effects.

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Do Certain Types of Sneakers Prevent Injuries?

Another commonly held medical presumption that different types of shoes are beneficial for preventing running injuries has been shown to be another medical urban legend. Two recent studies show no decrease of injuries by using motion control or cushioned running shoes.

Do Certain Types of Sneakers Prevent Injuries?

FDA recommends new limits on livestock drugs

The use of antibiotics to promote growth in livestock is a long term practice that has been criticized for a long time. It is good to see the FDA finally come out with recommendations against this practice. Unfortunately these are not regulations so many wonder if they will be followed.

FDA recommends new limits on livestock drugs

Best fix for rotator cuff tear remains uncertain.Best fix for rotator cuff tear remains uncertain.

Evidence on the pros and cons of various surgical and non-surgical treatments for rotator cuff tears is limited and inconclusive, a new review of published studies concludes.

This literature review is part of a growing type of research called comparative research. Comparitive research will help determine which treatments and interventions are superior. This includes comparing surgical versus non-surgical and and comparing different treatments within the surgical realm and the non-surgical realm. This will help greatly to improve patient care by allowing doctors and other practitioners to practice in a more evidence based manner, decrease cost, and decrease side effects and adverse events.

Best fix for rotator cuff tear remains uncertain.

Family Practice Study Shows Chiropractic Care to be Most Effective of 6 Complementary Care Methods

Many authorities no longer classify chiropractic treatment as a complementary healthcare method, but this new study published by the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice included chiropractic treatment as one of 6 complementary therapies and found that it is not only more utilized than the other 5 therapies combined, but it also has the highest perceived value of effectiveness.

Perceived Benefit of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for Back Pain: A National Survey

Chiropractic Manipulation Again Shown to Be More Effective Than Physiotherapy and Back School

It was long believed that chiropractic spinal manipulation was only effective for acute low back pain and only in the short-term. Several studies have now shown that spinal manipulation is also effective for chronic low back pain in both the short-term and long-term. This is a recent study from the January, 2010 issue of Clinical Rehabilitation Journal. It had 210 subjects with chronic low back pain and median age of 59 years old. The physiotherapy group received mobilization, exercise, and soft tissue techniques and the back school group received instruction in how to lift.
The manipulation group had the most improvement in both the short-term and the one-year follow-up.

Spinal Manipulation Compared with Back School and with Individually Delivered Physiotherapy for the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Trial with One-year Follow-up