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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Back pain -- Dr. recommendation request
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 15:03:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 15:03:15 1985
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> > I hope someone out there can recommend a good doctor for the
> > treatment of chronic back pain. My wife has suffered for years,
 
> Tom, I wonder if your wife has tried back excerises?  Unless, of
> course, there is something *physically* wrong, i.e. damaged such
> as a pinched nerve or slipped disc, I recommed trying the excerise
> route.

I am a sufferer with some physical back damage; for me exercise HAS helped.
I'll never be free of trouble (while alive), but I'm able to do such things
as vigorous Bulgarian folk dances.  I don't lift refrigerators or VAXen
anymore, though.
The doctor at Kaiser Redwood City was useless except for one thing:  he sent
me to the physical therapist there.
For those in other parts of the country, Kaiser is a large HMO (health
maintenance organization) with many hospitals etc.

-- 
Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)
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