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SPACE is a new kind of multi-disciplinary clinic bringing you the best skills and experience :
  • sports injuries
  • orthopaedic sports surgeon
  • back pain
  • post-op rehabilitation
  • manipulation and motor control
  • massage therapists

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LEADING THE WAY IN

SPORTS KNEE SURGERY

Ian Durrant

25th August 2005

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Charlotte Church with Stewart from SPACE Clinics"Thanks for the treatment, my back feels great."

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Manipulation for back pain

More effective than drugs

So medication for acute non-specific low back pain (or NSLBP) is not as effective as manipulation? We already know mobilisation of the spine works for chronic pain but this demonstrates improvement for acute pain!

Another hammer blow for the drugs industry? And is that physical treatment is available in Edinburgh?! Well certainly treatment rather than anti-inflamms seems sensible-and YES that treatment is right here!!!

A study of over 100 patients with back pain for over 48 hours duration were assigned treatment or medication (more of the non steroidal anti-inflammatory types of drugs such as.......

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Inflammation: Friend or Foe?

An age old question

One posed recently in light of widespread anti-inflammatory interventions in musculo-skeletal injury. But it poses more questions than the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs(NSAIDS) for mere traumatic injuries.

For example, exercise is known to cause a cascade of events including degeneration, inflammation, regeneration and fibrosis, with the regenerative events triggered by the inflammation phase.

So this poses questions as to our management of injuries, disease states and of exercise. Is it sensible to approach all inflammatory states with caution.......

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