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Happening now: Exercise is Medicine presentation to our Lifestyle Medicine/Preventive Medicine residents led by our Clinical Exercise Physiologist. Physical Activity (and all the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine) are First Line Therapy for chronic disease. Let’s ditch the notion that it is a complementary therapy. Exercise IS Medicine. #lifestylemedicine

Movement is often hailed as medicine for the body, capable of promoting physical health, mental well-being, and overall vitality. Just like medicine, however, the dosage of movement can be crucial. Just as a medication can be under-dosed or over-dosed, so too can exercise. In this blog post we'll delve into "finding the right dose".

Osteopaths Warn: Austria Faces EU Infringement Procedure Dear Wolfgang Bogensberger take a close look at https://lnkd.in/d6t87T2C and todays article in KURIER Medienhaus by Dr Christian Böhmer: The Austrian Society for Osteopathy (OEGO) has raised serious concerns regarding the upcoming reforms to the MTD law, which regulates medical-therapeutic-diagnostic health professions. Despite the attempts to regulate the profession legally for over a decade, osteopathy remains unrecognized in Austria, posing a significant issue for both professionals and the healthcare system. OEGO highlights that the current legal situation prevents qualified osteopaths from practicing in Austria, which could lead to an EU infringement procedure. This lack of recognition not only exacerbates the shortage of healthcare professionals but also extends patient wait times and rehabilitation periods. OEGO estimates that recognizing osteopathy could reduce sick leave days by around 13,000 annually, alleviate chronic pain for millions, and significantly cut costs for the healthcare system. It's crucial that Austria addresses this gap in healthcare regulation to ensure better outcomes for patients and professionals alike. Margit Halbfurter Thomas Marschall Johannes Rauch Katharina Reich Meinhild Hausreither Ralph Schallmeiner Josef Smolle Gabriele Kotzegger Gerhard Kaniak Fiona Fiedler Stefanie Braunisch Gerald Loacker Alexander Biach Andreas Huss #Healthcare #Osteopathy #Austria #HealthPolicy #EU

LINK TO ARTICLE ADDED TO POST: https://lnkd.in/gCkN5-CR SCS can be life changing therapy for unrelenting, life-impacting severe pain. SCS has a now undeniable and robust evidence base that shows that it is an effective, durable and generally safe, minimally invasive form of neuromodulation that when used in the appropriate settings can be life saving. This paper - with data out to 3 years - was derived from a global SCS registry - looking at 79 implanting centres around the world and showed this. 79 centres. 1881 participants. Nearly 90 authors - including Australian input. We can NOT all be wrong here. On the other hand there is one loud "voice" who are using very questionable tactics - and calling for these devices to be banned. This one loud "voice" is they who are wanting to not pay for these life-improving devices for our already disadvantaged and suffering patients with chronic pain. It is of course up to the individual what they choose to believe - but I implore you to search out information that supports this therapy - it is convincing and overwhelmingly positive.

Therapy on its own can be life changing. Medicine work on its own can be life changing. But the two together? That’s where all the magic is. ✨✨✨ All the studies have shown that it’s when the two are done in conjunction that we see the greatest results. #assistedpsychotherapy #innerhealer #soundjourney

📣 Our new paper in JMIR Publications mHealth and uHealth - a comprehensive map of the literature 📚 relating to the development and use of text/app based messaging 💬 for care/self care for people with MSK pain conditions. Of 8,328 papers screened, we included 3 previous reviews, and 47 papers describing 40 primary studies. ~50% of the primary studies related to rheumatic conditions; most intervention studies favoured messaging or were equivocal on outcomes including pain, QoL, and medication/exercise adherence. We found very few well-conducted formal design studies and no economic evaluations. #pain, #musculoskeletal, #mhealth, #messaging, #digitalhealth Open access paper is here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gJZ6FN3Y 👀, hope you find it interesting. Some figures in the commments below 👇🏽

#ClinicalStudy - Discover the study from the National Library of Medicine, which highlights the great results of RF Ablation: a successful procedure to help reduce pain and get people back to normal daily life. "Radiofrequency Ablation of the medial branch nerves for facet-mediated low back pain demonstrates clinical benefit for 6-12 months, and possibly up to 2 years." Learn more about the study: https://ow.ly/kIgN50SKg7I #radiofrequencyablation #painmanagement #study

The doctor's framework for sales: 1: Identify the symptoms. (What's wrong) 2: Identify the cause of the problem. 3: Provide the medicine. (Your product) #frameworkforsales #idenftifyyoursales