Show 1071: How You Can Get Relief from Chronic Pain (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Spine surgeon David Hanscom does some of the most complicated surgery you can imagine on bad backs. But his patients get even more relief from chronic pain by employing the nonsurgical techniques he offers them in preparation for surgery. Sometimes they feel so much better they don’t even need to go under the knife. How […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:03.2	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:04.7	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:11.0	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.9	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:26.6	Have you ever strained your back? It hurts, but the pain usually goes away. But what about
0:36.8	chronic pain? Is there a way to get relief?
0:40.3	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:49.8	The traditional treatments for chronic back pain have been surgery or narcotics,
0:54.9	but the opioid epidemic has many physicians nervous about prescribing drugs like hydrocodone or oxycodone.
1:01.9	Surgery doesn't always work, it has its own risks.
1:04.9	Are there other strategies for dealing with chronic pain?
1:08.6	We hear from back surgeon David Hanscomcom and his patient Mark Owens about an
1:13.6	unusual approach to becoming pain-free. Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, learn about a surgeon's
1:21.0	roadmap out of chronic pain. First, this news.
1:32.5	In the people's pharmacy health headlines,
1:37.9	the popular pain reliever ibuprofen has been linked to hormonal changes that might lead to infertility in men.
1:40.2	The study published in the prestigious proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
1:46.5	reports that this non-storital anti-inflammatory drug alters human testicular physiology. That's
1:53.1	worrisome, because the anti-angiogenic action of ibuprofen may be involved in adult male
1:58.7	reproductive problems. The authors conducted a randomized placebo-controlled trial
2:03.8	on 31 healthy men between 18 and 35 years of age.
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