Managing Chronic Back Pain Without Surgery

Tim Flynn, PT consistently advocates for physical therapy services for people with low back pain.  If you aren't familiar with his consistent messages, you can see them here, here, here and here.  Just between us, I think Flynn has substantially reduced the list of options from which people with chronic back pain choose.

Loads of cash are spent on managing low back pain. People who have chronic back pain have way too many options from which to choose.  I honestly never really thought about all the options until I saw The Spine Journal January - February 2008.  I really am loving Twitter because there are so many good people out there who really do reach out in a time of need.  Jeff Cubos, DC immediately exceeded my expectations with my request for assistance. Because of Cubos, I had the opportunity to read "A Supermarket Approach to the Evidence-Informed Management of Chronic Back Pain."  I enjoyed reading that as an introduction to the issue because it was visually creative, yet quite honestly true.  That edition of The Spine Journal reviewed 25, yes, 25 options people who have chronic back pain sometimes choose as a means to alleviate their symptoms.  A shout out to Cubos for his kindness in responding to my curiosity.

If you check out that particular edition of The Spine Journal and happen to be interested in the results of systematic reviews of those 25 options for people who have chronic back pain, a session during the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting on February 20 from 1-3:30 pm is being offered.  Simon Dagenais, DC, Scott Haldeman, DC, MD,  John Mayer, DC, Vert Mooney, MD, and William Quillen, PT will present "Evidence-Informed Management of Low Back Pain."

Edit January 24, 2010: Today it was brought to my attention that Dr. Mooney passed away in October 2009.  My condolences.

~Selena