Lower Back Pain Treatment Phoenix AZ

A 2003 Marketdata study on pain management programs found that only 4.4% of pain practitioners used saline injections in 2003, down substantially  from 21% in 1997.

According to Medscape, ligament injections of saline are as effective as prolotherapy for chronic low-back pain, according to the results of a randomized trial published in the January issue of Spine. The editorialist praises the study.

"In chronic nonspecific low-back pain, significant and sustained reductions in pain and disability occur with ligament injections, irrespective of the solution injected or the concurrent use of exercises," write author Michael J. Yelland, FRACGP, FAFMM, from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues.