Meningitis, a fast-spreading and painful illness, is sweeping the country due to “a tainted steroid used to treat back pain — that has sickened more than 400 people in 19 states and killed at least 31”.
Back pain treatments are becoming more and more common, and pharmacological cures are more often being sought.
Now that the steroid has been recalled, many people are turning to non-invasive treatments, such as chiropractic treatments, to heal the pain.
The statistics over back pain are dire:
[it’s} the second most common neurological ailment in the United States behind headaches, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. More than a quarter of adults experienced lower back pain in the last three months, according to a recent report by the National Center for Health Statistics.
As a result, traditional chiropractic methods were pushed aside in favor of injectable treatments, like steroids.
Since the outbreak, steroid treatments have dropped dramatically in usage, and back pain sufferers are rediscovering chiropractors to drug-free and pain-relieving result.