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Back Pain: Treatments

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  • Can You Really Throw Your Back Out?

    02/21/06, Harvard Health Publications

    The fact is, you cannot actually throw your back out — it’s a figure of speech, or, if taken literally, a myth. However, the experience of sudden, severe back pain is no myth to the person suffering through it.

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  • Herniated Disc - Home Treatment

    08/09/06, Healthwise

    Home treatment can help relieve symptoms caused by a herniated disc. Home treatment can also strengthen your back, which may help prevent further injury.

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  • Lumbar Spinal Stenosis - Home Treatment

    02/21/08, Healthwise

    Lumbar spinal stenosis is narrowing of the spinal canal that usually starts gradually and develops over a long period of time. This narrowing can squeeze and irritate the nerve roots that branch out from the spinal cord, or i

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  • Low Back Pain - Home Treatment

    02/06/08, Healthwise

    Whether your low back pain is mild or severe, home treatment will be an important part of your care.

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  • Scoliosis - Home Treatment

    08/30/07, Healthwise

    If your child or teen has been diagnosed with mild scoliosis and has a spinal curve of less than 25 degrees, it is important that a doctor check the child's spine every 4 to 6 months to see whether the curve is getting worse. Even thou

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  • Discectomy or microdiscectomy for a herniated disc

    07/21/08, Healthwise

    Discectomy (also called open discectomy) is the surgical removal of herniated disc material that presses on a nerve root or the spinal cord. Before the disc material is removed, a small piece of bone (the lamina) from the affected

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  • Percutaneous discectomy for a herniated disc

    07/21/08, Healthwise

    Percutaneous means "through the skin" or using a very small incision. Discectomy is the surgical removal of herniated disc material that presses on a nerve root or the spinal cord.

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  • Spinal fusion (arthrodesis)

    02/06/08, Healthwise

    Spinal fusion (arthrodesis) is a surgical procedure that joins, or fuses, two or more vertebrae. Spinal fusion is major surgery, usually lasting several hours. There are different methods of spinal fusion.

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  • Cervical spinal fusion

    08/21/08, Healthwise

    Cervical spinal fusion (arthrodesis) is a surgery that joins selected bones in the neck (cervical spine). There are different methods of performing a cervical spinal fusion:

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  • Stop Back Pain Instantly!

    12/04/06, Prevention

    Here are ways to halt the hurt

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