7News Just InUrgent calls to find relief for millions of Aussies suffering back pain
Many common treatments for back pain aren’t working, a new study has found, prompting urgent calls to find relief for the one in five Australians who are suffering.
Sharp pain, aches, and stiffness. There are dozens of ways to treat lubber back pain, but new researchers found just ten percent are effective.
We were specifically interested in non interventional, nonsurgical treatments. These are the ones that are recommended universally.
Researchers from Neuroscience Research Australia analyzed fifty six treatments, conducting trials and more than forty countries. They found for low back pain that's sudden, some anti inflammatory drugs worked. For chronic pain, exercise chiropractic treatment such as taping and spinal manipulation helped.
Chiropractic intervention can assist with most back pain. Sometimes it's an instant fixed. Sometimes the patient might require several.
Treatments, but medications like anesthetics, parastamol, and steroid injections didn't offer relief in either case. Was inconclusive for dozens of treatments, which is why clinical experts say more trials are urgently needed to determine which work.
But in some welcome news for long time sufferers, new therapies could be on the way.
But we're listening a bit more work to make sure these therapies
Are ready to go Zowhee Martin seven News
