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Injections for Back Pain Don’t Work

Jason Luban — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:53:05 +0000

A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine out April 17 provides evidence steroid injections for back pain are no more effective than a placebo. Because the long-term benefits of surgery remain unproven and pain medicines often have serious side effects, doctors have increasingly turned to steroid injections to treat lumbosacral radiculopathy, a common cause of back pain. The researchers conclude that steroids may provide some short-term analgesic effect, but that the improvement in all of the patients was mainly due to normal healing. The best thing for back pain, according to the study’s author? Exercise. See a quick summary of this research from the New York Times’ website.

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Acupuncture for Pregnant Women? Yup.

Jason Luban — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:05:12 +0000

There are a bunch of applications for acupuncture in women’s health, including during pregnancy for nausea, labor and delivery, and even turning a breach. In this brief video from CNN, a woman in Texas gets acupuncture from her OB/GYN for nausea during pregnancy. Check it out here

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The Single Best Thing You Can Do For Your Health

Jason Luban — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:02:02 +0000

Dr. Mike Evans, associate professor of family medicine and public health at the University of Toronto, has one possible response. Check out this fun video (under 10 minutes in length) where Evans speaks of one intervention that’s been shown to dramatically reduce the risks for anxiety, depression, fatigue, knee arthritis, hip fracture, diabetes, dementia and Alzheimer’s, and death.

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Study Proves Acupuncture is Safe for Kids

Jason Luban — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:41:46 +0000

Acupuncture in children is a safe treatment option with a low risk of bad side effects if done by properly trained practitioners, according to a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. To read more from ABC News’ website, click here…

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Understanding Pain (And What To Do About It)

Jason Luban — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:46:37 +0000

When people ask what kinds of conditions we treat in our clinic, my usual response is that most of our patients have tried many other modalities first, before they are ready to try acupuncture. This is especially true of people in chronic pain, who may have already been through western medical procedures, cortisone shots, surgeries, medications, and physical therapy before they arrive in our clinic. For those in pain, there is a lot of research out there on the etiology and pathogenesis of pain-related syndromes and what we can do about them.

A good friend who happens to be a physical therapist recently made me aware of the following 5-minute clip from Australia, which explains not only pain syndromes, but what we can do about them. Check it out–quite creative, and informative:

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Some Interesting News About The Bacteria in Your Gut

Jason Luban — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:06:17 +0000

Bacteria also come in all kinds of shapes, strings, spheres, oblongs. But they aren’t all bad guys. In fact, without them, we wouldn’t survive very long. We need them to digest food, to produce vitamins. We use them to fight off the bad bacteria. In spite of what you’re reading in the papers this week, they are more helpers than hurters.

New research shows that we may have gut “types,” just as we have blood types, based upon what type of bacteria we have in our gut. This may have a lot of implications for the way we eat, and why some of us have different reactions to the same kinds of foods.

For more on this, read this fun article from NPR correspondent Robert Krulwich on his science blog by clicking here.

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Why The Low-Fat Diet Doesn’t Work (And What To Do About It)

Jason Luban — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:58:22 +0000

Since the mid-1980s we’ve been told to eat a low-fat diet. Turns out that’s part of why we’re so fat, ironic as it may sound. Check out this excellent talk by a well-known Swedish MD on why low-fat diets do not work, and what and how we should be eating instead…

If you’d prefer to read about this rather than watch the video above, check out http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf.

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Concerned About Herbs? Prescription Drugs Are Far More Dangerous.

Jason Luban — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:03:23 +0000

Propelled by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses, drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States, a Los Angeles Times analysis of government data has found. Fueling the surge are prescription pain and anxiety drugs that are potent, highly addictive and especially dangerous when combined with one another or with other drugs or alcohol.

While most major causes of preventable death are declining, drugs are an exception. The death toll has doubled in the last decade, now claiming a life every 14 minutes. By contrast, traffic accidents have been dropping for decades because of huge investments in auto safety.

Public health experts have used the comparison to draw attention to the nation’s growing prescription drug problem, which they characterize as an epidemic. This is the first time that drugs have accounted for more fatalities than traffic accidents since the government started tracking drug-induced deaths in 1979.

Learn more by reading the article in the Los Angeles Times.

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Giving Thanks is Good For Your Health

Jason Luban — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:18:50 +0000

Recent studies have shown that adults who often feel grateful are more energetic, optimistic, happier and have more social connections than those who do not. What’s more, grateful people earn more money, sleep more soundly, exercise more regularly and have greater resistance to viral infections. For more on all of this, check out this article in the Wall Street Journal from Melinda Beck.

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Hypnosis Gains Ground

Jason Luban — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:24:19 +0000

We’re trained in hypnosis here at Lamorinda Healing Arts, so news on hypnosis in healthcare is always interesting to us. Now hypnosis as health care is gradually gaining ground, and many studies are coming out proving the benefit. Click here to read more on this from MSNBC’s website.

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