NEURAL THERAPY IN PRACTICE ARCHIVE

Dear Colleagues: This month I would like to discuss "conservative" treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis, a condition that we are seeing more of as the population ages. Incidence is difficult to evaluate but spine surgeons are now finding that spinal stenosis is the...

Dear Colleagues: The acutely sprained ankle is not a difficult thing to treat. In most cases, elevation during the first day or two, taping and early mobilization does the trick. Within a few weeks, normal activity can usually be resumed. Why is the sprained ankle not...

Dear Colleagues: Mechanical mid-back pain can be a diagnostic challenge. Pain in this area (from, say T6 to L3) is less common and the mechanics of the area are less complex than in the low back. Yet the results of mid-back pain treatment by manipulation or other...

Dear Colleagues: Diagnosing pain—especially chronic or recurrent pain—is a neglected art. However, if certain well-known neurophysiological principles are applied, diagnoses can be made in systematic and logical ways. An example of this can be found in thinking about...

Dear Colleagues: This month I'd like to take a break from the usual neural therapy case reports and clinical tips to report on a new book I have been reading. The Integrative Action of the Autonomic Nervous System: Neurobiology of Homeostasis, by Wilfrid Jänig,...

Dear Colleagues: Our neural therapy e-newsletter list is growing! If you're a newcomer, thanks for signing on. If you're an "old hand" at neural therapy, I encourage you to send your case presentations, as well as your comments and questions. A neural therapy journal...

Dear Colleagues: Do any of your patients suffer from "funny" abdominal pain? This month I want to discuss an often-overlooked part of our anatomy—the umbilicus—and its potential importance in clinical medicine. Some of its properties are surprising, at least to me,...

Dear Colleagues: Last month's newsletter on keloids and Dupuytren's contracture provoked an interesting question from Dr. Margaret Taylor of Fullarton, Australia. She raised the question as to whether frozen shoulder could be related to keloids and...

Dear Colleagues: In this issue, I'd like to discuss piriformis syndrome, one of the more interesting conditions caused by spasm of a specific muscle. This syndrome is intriguing, not only from a functional standpoint, but also from an anatomical perspective. The...

Dear Colleagues: Our neural therapy e-newsletter list is growing! If you're a newcomer, thanks for signing on. If you're an "old hand" at neural therapy, I encourage you to send your case presentations, as well as your comments and questions. A neural therapy journal...

Dear Colleagues: Welcome aboard, and thank you for your interest in neural therapy. In my experience, physicians in the English-speaking world of medicine who have been exposed to neural therapy are fascinated by it. However, this fascination can quickly turn to...