What can doctors do for your back pain? Not as much as you can | Ranjana Srivastava

Opioids don’t work. Surgery and injections rarely do, and scans are unnecessary. Better to get moving

“I’m sorry you’re in pain.”

“You have no idea,” she growls. She is a middle-aged, obese woman with chronic back pain admitted to hospital for the third time in a year.

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