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October 2025 Low Back Pain: Most Therapies Offer Minimal Benefits In the May 2025 issue of REAL News, we covered a British Journal of Medicine report that demonstrated minimal benefits of physical (PT) or exercise (ET) therapy for those with chronic low back pain (LBP). In the September 2025 online Journal of Sports Physical Therapy,Read More
May 2025 Ozempic-like Drugs for Childhood Obesity? From 2011-2020, obesity in the US increased to almost 20% of kids ages 2-19 years. Multiple studies have demonstrated that obese kids are likely to become obese adults, increasing their risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), heart disease, and many cancers. For more on childhood obesity, read this,Read More
Years ago, I read an article in a lay journal about alcohol’s effect on body weight. It mentioned three ways by which drinking alcohol affects weight gain. First, it is a load of empty calories, which means a small amount has a lot of calories that our bodies prefer not to use in a healthfulRead More
Here’s an article that stimulates absolutely no thought in my mind: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/does-exercising-make-you-drink-… The essence is that exercise seems to stimulate rather than blunt alcohol consumption. Humans present one layer of evidence; mice, which we assume do not have social circumstances centered on alcohol consumption, also seem to thrill on alcohol intake if they are exercisers.Read More
