Dear Jeanette
We could be very interested. I and my partner have done manipulation
on necks, thoracic & lumbar spines for over a decade (see
www.mdintranet.org.uk for a descrition of our technques) My crude
estimate is that about 80% of routinely presenting cases of
non-migrainous headache and back pain respond to these quick easy safe
treatments. We routinely teach our registrars and would welcome addition
EBM to the the already substantial trial literature supporting this. Who
knows Medical Schools might start teaching it and better still deaths
from NSAID use might fall.
Mike D'Souza
Jeannett A Martin (EMCU) 6236 wrote:
> The Medical Research Council(MRC) General Practice Research
> Framework(GPRF) and the University of York will be undertaking a
> randomised controlled trial in 1999 on the management of back pain.
> This trial will involve 1,200 sub acute and chronic back pain
> sufferers and is funded by the MRC.
>
> Participants who agree to take part will be randomised to either
> normal care
> exercise
> manipulation
> exercise and manipulation combined
>
> In order to establish clusters for the trial, the MRC would like to
> recruit additional general practices to the Framework in the
> following areas:
> Belfast
> Birmingham/Coventry/Solihull
> Cardiff
> Didcot/Abingdon
> Edinburgh
> Exeter
> Greater Sheffield
> Harrow
> Middlesborough
> Nottingham
>
> If your practice would be interested in collaborating with the MRC in
> this research, please let me know and I will arrange for you to
> receive further information on BEAM and the GPRF.
>
> Jeannett Martin
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