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Researchers have “little confidence” in massage therapy for low back pain

Nick Ng, BA September 21, 2015

While many people seek massage therapy as a way to alleviate low back pain, researchers from the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto, Canada, concluded in a 2015 meta-analysis that they have “very little confidence that massage is an effective treatment for [low back pain].” Based on 25 randomized-controlled

Disc bulge does not always correlate or cause back pain

A disc bulge does not always correlate to back pain, research finds

Nick Ng, BA March 27, 2015

Oregon-based Massage educator Whitney Lowe wrote on his blog that intervertebral discs can manage a high compressive load between the adjacent vertebrae. “The idea many people have when they hear about a ‘blown-out disc’ is that some acute force caused a previously normal disc to rapidly protrude to one side