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Back Pain, Scoliosis and Sciatica
Back Pain is reported to affect everyone at some point in his or her lives. It causes 110 million lost working days in Great Britain each year and is therefore a major problem. It has very many causes. If there is a trapped sciatic nerve in the back the problem is labelled sciatica, or more generally lower back pain or lumbago. However, the following features should send you to your doctor for a firm diagnosis.
- Paralysis of any part of a leg, arm or body
- Difficulty in passing urine or faeces.
- Extreme tenderness of one part of the back preventing sleep.
- Any change in an old back problem.
- Any new and progressive back pain worsening over a few days where you haven't injured it.
- Anything that especially worries you.
Scoliosis is a lateral (sideways) deformity of the spine which affects 4% of the population to some extent. It tends to be commoner in girls and appear around puberty. It requires sympathetic longterm treatment.
Back Pain Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
The main attack of modern medicine with mechanical back pain is to rest for only a minimum time (preferably less than 48 hours) and to take enough painkillers/anti-inflammatories to keep you mobile whilst nature does the healing. Drugs include Meloxicam (Mobic), Naproxen (Naprosyn), Nabumetone (Relifex), Etodolac (Lodine) and Diclofenac (Voltarol) and over the counter drugs such as Ibuprofen. All of these have a risk of bleeding into the bowel and are inappropriate for many people.
Scoliosis may require splints or corrective surgery depending on severity
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Back Pain, Scoliosis and Sciatica
These are commonly available:-
| Alexander Technique |
| Aromatherapy |
| BodyTalk |
| Bowen Technique |
| Chiropractic |
| Craniosacral Therapy |
| Hypnosis |
| Kinesiology |
| Massage |
| Neurolinguistic Programming |
| Pilates |
| Reflexology |
| Reiki |
| Less so are:- |
| Hellerwork |
Please also see Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Back Pain, Scoliosis and Sciatica
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Mrs. | Barbara | Simon | New South Wales | Australia | |
| Mrs. | Cindy | Fisher | British Columbia | Canada | |
| Mr. | Lawrence | Smith | Quebec | Canada | |
| Mrs. | MK | Parr | Cumbria | Great Britain | |
| Mr. | Simon | Henderson | London | Great Britain | |
| Ms. | Marcia | Degelman | California | United States of America | |
| Mr. | d'jango | sanders | Texas | United States of America | |
Back Pain, Scoliosis and Sciatica Blog
Add your contributions to the blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Back Pain, Scoliosis and Sciatica Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Bad Backs | Australia/ New Zealand | National |
| Canadian Health Resource Centre | Canada | National |
| BackCare | Great Britain | National |
| Pain Relief Foundation | Great Britain | National |
| Bone and Joint Decade India | India | National |
| Arthritis Care Ireland | Ireland | National |
| Irish Chronic Pain Association | Ireland | National |
| bigbackpain.com | United States of America | National |
| The Scoliosis Association | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
