This is not news to me, but it may be to you. After all, I have patients come in for care of back pain and leg pain, having had several, if not many steroid injections into the back muscles and spine. This type of aggressive medical management is also not without the high potential of harmful side effects and new or greater damage to healthy muscle tissue and nerves.
The evidence is clear, try drug-less and nonsurgical methods first to relieve acute and chronic back pain. In other words, try chiropractic therapy. Chiropractic is considered by the research to be safe, with high positive treatment outcomes (aka results) and cost-effective. Dr. Press
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