Hey guys, I am a 17 year old football
player and for about a little less than a
year now I have had a really bad pain in
my back right around my hip bone (I'm not
so sure if its my hip bone but its on the
left side and its the bone in your lower
back that when you feel it it feels sorta
like 2 ball shaped bones one on each
side.)
The pain is not present all the time but I
feel it horribly when I make certain
movements the only movement that it always
hurts on is when I lean back and just a
little to my left and sometimes when I
walk on my left foot though not every time
I step with it does it hurt. Also this
pain seems to come and go.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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jedd
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 11
It sounds like your quandratislumbrum or something like that! Posted: 02-16-08 04:04am
Hey dude have some acupuncture, i did the
same when I was 25 and Chinese Medicine
was what helped. Actually changed my life.
Be sure they have done 4 years of
acupuncture learning the traditional style
otherwise the treatment maybe not as
good.
Jedd
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algosdoc
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 186
Posted: 02-16-08 08:46am
The following article found acupuncture or
sham acupuncture worked equally well (sham
acupuncture is randomly sticking needles
in the body in no particular defined
location). This indicates that the
education and experience of the person
performing acupuncture is irrelevant since
a person without any acupuncture training
at all can perform sham acupuncture.
Arch Intern Med. 2007 Sep
24;167(17):1892-8.
Erratum in:
Arch Intern Med. 2007 Oct
22;167(19):2072.
German Acupuncture Trials (GERAC) for
chronic low back pain: randomized,
multicenter, blinded, parallel-group trial
with 3 groups.
BACKGROUND: To our knowledge, verum
acupuncture has never been directly
compared
with sham acupuncture and guideline-based
conventional therapy in patients with
chronic low back pain. METHODS: A patient-
and observer-blinded randomized
controlled trial conducted in Germany
involving 340 outpatient practices,
including 1162 patients aged 18 to 86
years (mean +/- SD age, 50 +/- 15 years)
with a history of chronic low back pain
for a mean of 8 years. Patients underwent
ten 30-minute sessions, generally 2
sessions per week, of verum acupuncture (n
=
387) according to principles of
traditional Chinese medicine; sham
acupuncture (n
= 387) consisting of superficial needling
at nonacupuncture points; or
conventional therapy, a combination of
drugs, physical therapy, and exercise (n
=
388). Five additional sessions were
offered to patients who had a partial
response to treatment (10%-50% reduction
in pain intensity). Primary outcome was
response after 6 months, defined as 33%
improvement or better on 3 pain-related
items on the Von Korff Chronic Pain Grade
Scale questionnaire or 12% improvement
or better on the back-specific Hanover
Functional Ability Questionnaire.
Patients
who were unblinded or had recourse to
other than permitted concomitant therapies
during follow-up were classified as
nonresponders regardless of symptom
improvement. RESULTS: At 6 months,
response rate was 47.6% in the verum
acupuncture group, 44.2% in the sham
acupuncture group, and 27.4% in the
conventional therapy group. Differences
among groups were as follows: verum vs
sham, 3.4% (95% confidence interval, -3.7%
to 10.3%; P = .39); verum vs
conventional therapy, 20.2% (95%
confidence interval, 13.4% to 26.7%; P
< .001);
and sham vs conventional therapy, 16.8%
(95% confidence interval, 10.1% to 23.4%;
P < .001. CONCLUSIONS: Low back pain
improved after acupuncture treatment for
at
least 6 months. Effectiveness of
acupuncture, either verum or sham, was
almost
twice that of conventional therapy.
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smashmouthd
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 2
Posted: 02-18-08 00:17am
Thanks for the replies and sorry for the
late reply, I'll look into acupuncture
asap though.
