You may never be 100 per cent pain-free

You may never be 100 per cent pain-free
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Especially if you’re experiencing chronic back or knee pain. In many cases, we consider your treatment a success if we get rid of 50 per cent of your pain and help you to be more functional.

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Steroid injections are now a top treatment for back pain

Steroid injections are now a top treatment for back pain
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But critics say there is little evidence of any long-term benefit compared to their risks, especially for back pain that doesn’t radiate down the legs.

We’re incentivised to find ways to treat you

We’re incentivised to find ways to treat you

Pain doctors are paid about five to 10 times more for doing a procedure on you than for counselling you about how to prevent pain. Nerve blocks and injections are very lucrative, especially if you do them assembly-line-style all day long.

Get out of bed!

Get out of bed!
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For every day you’re lying there, you lose 1 to 3 per cent of your muscle strength, and then you start to feel stiff simply because you’re not moving. Your pain will get better faster if you stay active.

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Source: RD.com

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