Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Back pain -- Dr. recommendation request Message-ID: <623@voder.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 15:03:15 EST Article-I.D.: voder.623 Posted: Fri Jan 11 15:03:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:34:09 EST References: <929@ihuxn.UUCP> <416@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 22 [sciatic line] > > 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) Extend USENET to omicron Ceti.