This sounds just too good to be true, but according to an article by Roger Dobson on dailymail.co.uk in a study by orthopaedic consultants in China, 19 per cent of patients treated no longer experienced pain, with a further 72 per cent having slight pain that required no medication.
This was after just one single injection of a substance called methylene blue. This apparently reduces the level of nitric oxide, which is involved in inflammation.
I seem to recall using methylene blue years ago when I kept tropical fish, to treat them for nitrate poisoning amongst other things. Very effective it was too. Also very cheap, but of course if this treatment works effectively for chronic back pain just watch the cost escalate.
Other specialists around the world are excited about this development.
One of these, Professor Nikolai Bogduk, pain specialist at the University of Newcastle's Bone and Joint Institute in Australia had this to say:
“If the results are true, this intervention will revolutionise the treatment of lower back pain. Spinal surgery for back pain will be rendered obsolete. Against these figures, the results of surgery, rehabilitation, behavioural therapy and any other treatment for back pain pale into insignificance.”
This is certainly one to keep an eye on. To read the full story use this link.
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