Steroids works for me whenever I have a flare-up..................
Same for the wife. Chiro did nothing either. Massage took away excruciating pain. She goes every two weeks now.
Whiskey is a wonderful muscle relaxant. I take a bit just before bedtime when my back is acting up.
acupuncture from a competent operator also can work wonders ...
My back is all jacked up.
Muscle relaxers never did crap except sort of make my whole body floppy and have me go to sleep.
American health care... chasing fads, flow charted, expensive, politicized, user unfriendly (difficult to navigate).
(1) Flow charted and (2) user unfriendly need extra attention/explanation:
(1) US health care is rationed care. Through what we call the “standard of care” consumers who are paying for this, and who bear the consequences, basically get told what they get. You don’t have free choice in America anymore than you do in some European socialist health care system. Both ration care, only we do it with a private insurance store front, whereas they actually allow for a true parallel private health care system to coexist with the state public care in many countries.
(2) Between the complexities of insurance and the billing games providers play, it is near impossible to manage the financial aspect of health care in this country. When you go to a US hospital, you are signing a blank check. Between in network, out of network, 7 different bills for the same procedure, so called privacy rights (which are a joke) that prevent the sharing or information unless of course you’re an insurance company, the state government, federal government... In America we make fun of used car dealers, but these are actually controlled extensively, whereas health care is the wild west when it comes to raking the customer over the coals.
Pretty buildings, great advertising... though. When it comes to aesthetics, US health care is hands down the most impressive out there.
So-so (right on par with other socialist health care systems) when it comes to results, it’s managed by politicians and businessmen (pharma and insurances), not you the consumer. You the consumer has lost complete control a long time ago. You just get to pay for it and then are told what you will get.