The healthy back report: moves, tips and treatment options to keep your back pain-free for life

Article Abstract:

Back pain, the second most common cause of doctor visits after the common cold, will strike 80% of the population at some point during their lifetime. The condition, however, is preventable through the right workout, proper posture and easy, everyday preventive measures. Among the array of treatment options for back pain are massage therapy, acupuncture and surgery.

Physiological aspects, Back

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New rules for bad backs

Article Abstract:

The US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research released new findings on acute lower-back pain in December 1994. They found that most acute lower-back pains disappear after two weeks and that osteopathy and chiropractic can help reduce back pain.

Research, United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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The quiet epidemic: Hepatitis C is rampant, but few know about it

Article Abstract:

The hepatitis C virus has been shown by official statistics to infect as many as 3.9 mil Americans. Blood transfusions have been suspected as the chief cause of infection, for which no vaccine or treatment has been discovered.

Demographic aspects, Liver diseases, Hepatitis C

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