02/08/2024
The post below from Dr. Deed Harrison, lead instructor and research for Chiropractic BioPhysics, and is in reference to an extremely important study. Unfortunately powerful groups are constantly seeking to limit patient care to improve profits for the industries which rule them. This is at the expense of the health of our communities. I am so thankful to be a part of a group who fights this battle in the world of research to do the right thing and help patients to the best of our abilites!
It’s Published! This is our 3rd collective manuscript published so far in 2024. I was invited to collaborate on this important project by professor Ahmed ElMelhat, PT, PhD from Cairo University and the Beirut Arab University. I originally met Ahmed through my esteemed colleague professor Ibrahim Moustafa. The project with Ahmed and his team and myself just hit the press at the Journal of Clinical Medicine (The JCM). Of significance the article was chosen as a Feature article of the month due to its clinical significance and its potential impact.
See this link: [https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/4/974](https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/4/974)
Our manuscript presents a clinically friendly and scientifically sound update on the conservative care management of patients presented with lumbo-sacral radiculopathy and back pain due to disc herniation. Multi-modal care is the most appropriate for these patients. Further, the manuscripts a scientific misrepresentation of the rating and usage of spine traction for the management of these types of patients. Many recent guidelines from organizations like the WHO and Chiropractic driven groups have rated traction treatment as inappropriate. However, we identified no less than 4-recent meta-analyses that clearly show traction improves the short term outcomes of patients with disc herniation. Further our manuscript sheds light on the use of extension traction to increase the lumbar lordosis in the subgroup of patients with disc herniation and loss of lumbar lordosis by drawing attention to the 2-randomized trials on this and the case reports—-extension traction is generally over-looked by the WHO and other guideline groups. Enjoy this article and congratulations to my esteemed colleagues on this manuscript.—-Very well done!