Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
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Have you correlated the brain findings with what you know about these people's lifestyle and general health and what they actually died of?
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If you've lived a life with low cholesterol and low blood pressure, do you end up with a protected brain?
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So what's your takeaway message from this study for the person worried about their brain as they reach the brick wall at the end of the tunnel?
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And buried in that story might be a potential treatment when you find out
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Stephen Wharton, thank you very much indeed.
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Thank you.
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Stephen Wharton is a neuropathologist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
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I'm Norman Swan, and this has been The Health Report.
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I'll see you next time.
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Hello, and welcome to the Health Report with me Norman Swan.
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Today a part of the body that's been a pain or will be a pain to most of us at some time in our lives, our backs.
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There's a huge industry out there devoted to the bad back from chiropractic to physiotherapy to acupuncture to surgery, and you can be sure that when there's such a variety of things on offer in medicine, there's no magic answer.
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The evidence is that for common or garden low back pain, not lying down to it if that's possible, and perhaps some targeted muscle strengthening is pretty good in the long run.
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But for some people with really bad nerve pain, sciatica, or a condition that's called spinostenosis, and I'll explain what that is later, the option of back surgery emerges, and it's controversial for a lot of reasons.
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Some trials show benefits in carefully selected people, some don't.
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And in any event you can imagine how hard it is to do a randomized trial of something like spinal surgery.
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Secondly, there's an epidemic of spinal surgery, at least in the United States, with it being one of the most rapidly growing types of operation.
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The situation in Australia isn't so clear, but there is a lot of spinal surgery around, and hospital costs for chronic back pain and slip discs are around five hundred million dollars a year.
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But it's patchy and varies from place to place.
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And when there's variation in surgical rates, it rings alarm bells among people who care about safety and quality in healthcare.
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