Any conservative care success stories?

[Deb]

Thanks Maria. I still have to wear a soft brace and go lightly for another month or two because my fractured and compressed L5 is slow healing. Chronic pain is new to me, very draining mentally. I hope to be lightly 'active' again soon and try myofascial release, maybe accupuncture as well, in addition to light physical therapy. It may help or may be no help i know.

I read this article recently by a famous weightlifter about how he recovered from major spine injury without surgery. Sounds extreme and very hard to believe, but who knows? Would like to see mri images to verify.

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/tr...fortheback.htm

Deb

[Maria]

Talk about a glutton for punishment! I guess this person is obcessed w/lifting weights tho I think I'd have stopped at the first few injuries sustained.

It's an uplifting (no pun intended) article in a way tho it's been quite some time since I worked out in the gym and don't remember what most of these exercises are so have to look them up.

I'm pretty conservative about what I do to exercise these days as I find that when I've tried to work out and I've tried many times I always end up flaring something up be it my neck or low back and often both so I just mostly walk for exercise and maybe one day I'll get back into some lightweight gym routine tho I can't see me ever doing anything too heavy duty.

The last thing I want to do is injure anything else (it just seems to happen with aging!)! Thanks for the link however as it was an interesting read. Good luck with your progress and hope the chronicity of the type of pain you're having will wear out as I do know all too well how draining chronic pain can be!

[Deb]

Has anyone tried or personally seen results of...

"Intramuscular oxygen-ozone therapy in the treatment of acute back pain with lumbar disc herniation: a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, clinical trial of active and simulated lumbar paravertebral injection."

Intramuscular injection with ultra fine needle seems like a very low risk treatment, compared to most others.

61% of patients pain free at 6 months is outstanding from a risk versus benefit perspective. Personally I am increasingly fearful of having any spine surgery from some of the disturbing outcomes i have read. regards, Deb.

Intramuscular oxygen-ozone therapy in ... [Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2009] - PubMed - NCBI