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| Chris Graeme |
Posted - 11/28/2006 : 14:04:51
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/RSNAMeeting/tb1/4600
CHICAGO, Nov. 28 -- For chronic low back pain with no identifiable morphological cause, the brain can reveal some tell-tale changes, researchers reported here.
Action Points
Explain to interested patients that this study suggests that chronic back pain can cause changes in the microstructure of several brain regions.
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| HilaryN |
Posted - 11/30/2006 : 08:22:53
Thanks, Chris. After I posted above I tried writing to Dr Lutz at that same domain. I didn't get a delivery failure - I'll let you know if I get a reply.
Hilary N |
| Chris Graeme |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 16:00:41
The study is also mentioned here
http://www.physorg.com/news83942213.html
That says that on of the co-authors is a Gustav Schelling, M.D., Ph.D. from the Department of Anaesthesiology at Munich University.
I found his address from another paper (http://www.physorg.com/news83942213.html) as below......
Address for correspondence: G. Schelling, M.D., Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Klinikum Grosshadern, Department of Anaesthesiology, 81377 Muenchen, Germany. Voice: +49897095-1; fax: +498970958886. e-mail: gustav.schelling@med.uni-muenchen.de |
| HilaryN |
Posted - 11/29/2006 : 11:07:52
I couldn't find an email address for Dr Lutz or Dr Zimmerman. I'm sure they would be interested to hear about Dr Sarno's work.
Hilary N |
| Dave |
Posted - 11/28/2006 : 15:53:01
Yet another backwards report.
How can a scientist say with certainty that this "confirms the effect of pain on the plasticity of the brain."
How can they be certain that the pain causes these changes in the brain?
What if these changes in the brain are the cause of the pain?
In fact, without realizing it, these researchers may have come up with an alternate or more detailed explanation than Dr. Sarno's oxygen deprivation theory. Perhaps instead of (or in addition to) depriving tissues of oxygen, the brain affects traffic in the thalamorcorical tract?
So close, yet so far... |
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