Lower Back Pain Could Be Treated Better, Says Oregon Doc




The Jefferson Exchange show

Summary: "Ouch, my back" and its equivalent is heard frequently around the planet. By some counts, more than half a Billion people suffer from low back pain at any point in time. Treatment for low back pain can take a number of different approaches. And many of them are wrong , in the eyes of Dr. Roger Chou at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). He's part of a study team evaluating treatments like opioid painkillers.