We discuss the first principles of musculoskeletal health and how that translates to a happy and healthy life.

Dr. William Brady, the president and founder of Integrative Diagnosis, walks you through each of the seven FIRST PRINCIPLES of the ID system (really all of musculoskeletal healthcare). Doctor Holen and I discuss these principles briefly.

Find an Integrative Diagnosis provider. Chronic back pain can be solved if the provider has the appropriate level of training and skill.

For patients with acute low back pain who received first-line care, intensive patient education was no more effective than a placebo intervention. Adding complex, time-consuming treatments to primary-care based advice and reassurance is likely to be unnecessary for most patients with acute low back pain.

Low back pain is one of the common health problems that 50–80% of adults experience at some point in their life. Here are some of the global burden stats of chronic back pain including stats from the U.S., Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, and Israel.

Two studies demonstrating MRI findings in people with chronic low back pain is strongly associated. Journal of Pain Research. Spine.

Pain is complex, however "conscious perception and unconscious effects originating from the vertebral column, perivertebral soft tissues, and regional neural structures, although complex, have definite pathways represented in this network of innervation associated with intimately related or parallel components of the peripheral and central nervous systems." --JR Jinkins