Antihypertensive Medication and Fracture Risk in Older VA Nursing Home Residents jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Blood Pressure Management and Falls in Nursing Home Residents jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Surrogate Markers and Clinical Outcomes for Nononcologic Chronic Disease Treatments jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Short waits, happy patients and expert care, moving basic musculoskeletal care from the emergency department to a physiotherapist‐led diversion pathway - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

The course of acute low back pain: a community-based inception cohort study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38606314/

theconversation.com/surgery-wont-f…

Surgery won’t fix chronic back pain so what will?

The most common complaint among people with chronic pain is low back pain.
Researchers (University of Sydney, UNSW + Macquarie University) explain what treatments do – and don’t – work. theconversation.com/surgery-wont-f…

Lots of people getting in touch about Four Corners coverage of spinal cord stimulators and back pain. Good to see this industry again under the microscope!

Key missing point: we do have good treatments for back pain. Not enough people have heard of them. buff.ly/3vKaNr9

WTF! Surgeon At Private Hospital Recommends Non-Surgical Option betootaadvocate.com/breaking-news/… via @betootaadvocate

The 1st time a company representative ‘showcased’ the ‘effectiveness’ of spinal stimulators I could not believe what I was hearing. That was in 2017 and in a ‘multidisciplinary’ pain management course. Upset but not shocked when I watched #pain_factory
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Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will? theconversation.com/surgery-wont-f… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Hard to imagine a more qualified team to write about this topic. Essential reading:

Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will? theconversation.com/surgery-wont-f… via
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Excellent piece that highlights the paradigm shift we are seeing in care for people with back pain. Unfortunately, health systems have not caught up with the evidence, all points raised here pertain to Denmark (and most other countries) as well theconversation.com/surgery-wont-f…

Updated link
Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will? theconversation.com/surgery-wont-f… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Nerita 🐚 Institute for Musculoskeletal Health Cochrane ABC News Mark Butler MP Adrian Traeger Chris Maher Dr Skeptic Stephen Gilbert Sydney Health Sydney Health EMCR Sydney MSK Me too!! Sad it takes peoples suffering and voice to drive it.

Institute for Musculoskeletal Health Peter O'Sullivan Cochrane ABC News Mark Butler MP Adrian Traeger Chris Maher Dr Skeptic Stephen Gilbert Sydney Health Sydney Health EMCR Sydney MSK So glad I said no to this! The pain clinic I visited pushed this so hard. My psychologist (at that clinic) warned me quietly that it’s unlikely to work & is pushed because of the huge monetary gains 😞

New coverage of our Cochrane review of spinal cord stimulators for #backpain was covered in ABC News Four Corners program on Monday night, and other related news stories.

Mark Butler MP has since called for an urgent inquiry into these devices.

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Evidence doesn’t support spinal cord stimulators for chronic back pain – and they could cause harm theconversation.com/evidence-doesn… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand