FUNCTION CENTRED TRAINING VERSUS DRUGS(Keywords: FUNCTION CENTRED TRAINING VERSUS DRUGS is a three-year randomised study of 174 patients suffering from Low Back Pain who placed in two different programs:
"It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
Where?Valens clinic in Switzerland.Programme coordinators: Dr Stefan Bachmann and Dr John Verhoef. RESULTSBeing an inpatient programme, both programmes were expensive, but those on the rehab programme had
compared with those on the medication programme.
Frankly, neither the medication nor the rehab programme produced particularly impressive looking results with around 50% of the patients being permanently disabled after three years in either programmes. However, lets acknowledge that every patient was probably a tough case.However, the 118 days worked by those in the rehab programme versus 74 days of those on the medication programme (after one year) amounts to enormous savings for the employers, and quality of life for the patients. Perhaps it's time for our Swiss chiropractic colleagues to challenge their phyiotherapist compatriots to a competition! Interesting linksGo from FUNCTION CENTRED TRAINING VERSUS DRUGS to TEN SECOND STEP TEST …MONTHLY NEWSLETTERChiropractic-Help.com and Chiropractic-Books.com send out a joint monthly newsletter. It covers an overview of a health topic (August 2010 issue #17: Facial pain and Migraine), always a nutritional corner (such as Mussels, loaded with anti-oxidants),.Sign up at the bottom of any Chiropractic Help Page, for example this one on WHIPLASH CHIROPRACTIC , one of the most important pages at Chiropractic Help. The newsletter is free, and one click cancels it if you find it boring or irrelevant.
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