Who knew?:
Up to 40% of patients with chronic back pain could be cured with a course of antibiotics rather than surgery, in a medical breakthrough that one spinal surgeon says is worthy of a Nobel prize.So once again we see that knowledge advances, and nothing in science is etched in stone. (except for the inarguable fact that everyone knows: one hundred years ago the climate was Just Right and now everything is ruined)
Surgeons in the UK and elsewhere are reviewing how they treat patients with chronic back pain after scientists discovered that many of the worst cases were due to bacterial infections.
The shock finding means that scores of patients with unrelenting lower back pain will no longer face major operations but can instead be cured with courses of antibiotics costing around £114.
One of the UK's most eminent spinal surgeons said the discovery was the greatest he had witnessed in his professional life, and that its impact on medicine was worthy of a Nobel prize.
3 comments:
This may be an interesting discovery, but no way is it worthy of a Nobel Prize. Unless, of course, Obammy can be given credit for it, in which case he should be awarded every Nobel Prize forever.
You should be getting some new traffic via Facebook - I shared this over there and I notice that others are sharing my link. We have a friend with Limes Disease, who when diagnosed & treated suddenly was able to stand upright for the first time in some years. I was surprised to learn that there are other infections than Limes that affect the back.
Oh, thanks for the link. It's hard to track where visitors come from - most just say "no referring link" but I can tell by volume when a post has gotten exposure on facebook.
thanks
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