Dear Mike
Thankyou Mike, could you let me have your address and our database
manager will send you an information pack on the MRC General
Practice Research Framework and BEAM. If you decide you would like to
take part in the trial please return the reply slip and our Regional
training Nurse will arrange to visit the practice to explain how the
GPRF works.
If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me on 0171
982 6236 or Martin Underwood the study manager on 0171 982 6232
Jeannett
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 22:53:57 +0100
Organization: TORCHE
Subject: Re: Backpain RCT
From: "Mike D'Souza" <[log in to unmask]>
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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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