On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:04:09 -0600, Omelet >
wrote:

>In article >,
> "cshenk" > wrote:
>
>> "Mark Thorson" wrote
>> > brooklyn1 wrote:
>> >> Omelet wrote:
>>
>> >> > Dave, Dr. Thai talked about epidural cortisol injections as well.
>>
>> >> Pain block shots can ease discomfort but cure nothing. Many people
>>
>> > Cortisol is not a pain block. It is a hormone
>> > which is a powerful anti-inflammatory. Reducing
>> > inflammation can decrease pressure on nerves.
>>
>> Mark, we can all ignore Sheldon on this one. He's got no background of
>> worth at all on it.
>
>Not so fast hon'. While he may be ignorant about Cortisol injections,

Both accomplish the same thing, reduce pain... one by reducing
pressure, the other by reducing sensitivity... in actuality most
doctors inject a combo. Many doctors accomplish the same by
prescribing regimen of oral dosages; prednisone + hydrocodone. But
neither is a cure, there is no cure for disk damage, disks do not
regenerate.

>he was spot on about using an ergonomic desk chair. Footwear and
>sleeping situations are often one of the first things a good
>Chiropractor will discuss with a new patient when they come in for
>chronic back pain. :-)

Most people develop back pain because their parents did not have them
examined by a othopedist as infants. No one is born with a perfect
skeleton, everyone is born with some degree of scoliosis, everyone
has one leg longer and with some degree of orbital anomaly. Most
infants benefit by a corrective device, and when properly applied are
much less likely to suffer back pain as adults. The time to correct
skeletal misalignment is in infancy while the skeleton is pliable and
still growing. It's extremely important to have an infant examined by
a pediactric orthopedist... years ago this was done routinely as a
matter of course but somehow as time passed this area of medicine has
greatly diminished, so that now the incidense of back pain in adults
has escalated to catastrophic proportions, everywhere there is back
pain. Surgeries and drugs are to no avail if one continues to wear
crappy footwear (there is no such thing as a proper sneaker), spend
hour after hour with their butts in crappy chairs, and spend fully a
third of their life on a crappy mattress.