Back Stats: you are not alone in your back pain

Back Pain Statistics:
In 1991, Statistics Canada reported that back pain was the most common cause of workers’ compensation, or 28%!

Accidents causing days of incapacity to work:
5% to 15% work during leisure

Health problems related to working conditions most frequently cited:
30% due to back pain
28% due to stress

The back pain in Canada (1993) include :
Professions where back pain are the most common: handlers and nursing staff
Lesion the most frequent: 76% are sprains which 58% are located in the lumbar column
Cause on average 41 days absence from work and costs $ 2 012 for damages / injuries
4 to 5 people felt in their lifetime pain in lower back. (according to Genevieve Charest, the Department of Kinesiology, University of Sherbrooke)
Each day, we bow our backs 1 500 to 2 000 times.
35% of the postures are harmful
3 600 000 working days lost
1st cause of consultation centres in pain
50% of children have sore back and sometimes as young as 8 years
The back pain accounts for 13% of accidents each year
Between 12 and 34% of the population suffers from cervicalgie
It is the 1st cause of disability among children under 45 years

Non-Surgical treatment for Back Pain
prolotherapy (read more in services section of this site)
platelet rich plasma therapy
acupuncture
massage
physiotherapy
chiropractic care

Prolotherapy: A Non Surgical Treatment for Pain

Prolotherapy is a medical procedure that many chronic and acute pain patients, as well as athletes with sports injuries, are turning to because it is used as an alternative to surgery, arthroscopy, cortisone shots, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, and/or chronic use of narcotic pain medications. Prolotherapy stimulates the body to repair the painful injured area(s) when the body’s natural healing process is not able to do the job on its own. In most cases, commonly prescribed anti-inflammatory medications and more drastic measures like surgery, joint replacements, cortisone shots, and other therapies may not help, and often hinder or even prevent the healing process

The treatment is useful for many different types of musculoskeletal pain, including arthritis, back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, sports injuries, unresolved whiplash injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic tendonitis, partially torn tendons, ligaments and cartilage, degenerated or herniated discs, TMJ and sciatica.

Prolotherapy uses a dextrose (sugar water) solution, which is injected into the ligament or tendon where it attaches to the bone. This causes a localized inflammation in these weak areas which then increases the blood supply and flow of nutrients and stimulates the tissue to repair itself.

read more: http://www.straight.com/article-153736/therapy-takes-a-jab-stubborn-sports-pains

Baby Carrots Soaked in Chlorine?

Can this be so? Much to my dismay it sure looks like it (sigh). It just seemed too good to be true, those little convenient carrots!: http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/carrots.asp

Save the Date!

Please join me on Saturday December 3 at 1:00 at the Pharmasave on Robson for Dr Rootes’ Top 10 Tips for Surviving the Holidays.

Dextrose injections control knee pain in teens

Check out this latest research for knee pain. The study was done on teens but it extends to all ages: http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/751311?src=cmemp