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Article: Back pain study measures effectiveness of alternative therapy.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- September 19, 2001
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TYLER, Texas _ Stacey Solomon was on her feet and headed home within hours after emerging from a hospital operating room. Within weeks, the 32-year-old was jogging and mulling the possibility of holding down a job again
"I've had back pain for about six years. I just put up with it, took mega-amounts of ibuprofen and went on, because there didn't seem to be anything else I could do," she said. "Now as far as the pain goes. My back is not hurting _ at all."
The mother of two had given up a housecleaning business last spring and resigned herself to living with constant, crippling back pain. The major back surgeries that her brother and sister had ...