Dear Jeanette
Our address is The Canbury Medical Centre, 1, Elm Rd, Kingston-upon-Thames,
Surrey. KT2 6HR
Mike D'Souza
Jeannett A Martin (EMCU) 6236 wrote:
> 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]>
> To: [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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