New therapy aims to cure back pain without drugs, surgery
Pain Specialists Australia & adjacent shows — New therapy aims to cure back pain without drugs, surgery
Channel: TODAY · Our label: Pain specialists — evidence educators · Source: youtube.com/watch?v=_S7w2eg0DYw
What this video covers
THERAPY, AND IT GIVES PEOPLE THE TOOLS TO THINK DIFFERENTLY ABOUT CHRONIC PAIN THEY SAY THE KEY, IT’S ALL UP HERE » I COULDN’T SIT OR STAND FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME WITHOUT MASSIVE PAIN, SO I PRETTY MUCH DID NOTHING. » Reporter: IT’S BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE GREG WHISTLER WAS ABLE TO LIFT A WEIGHT. HIS BACK PAIN STARTED IN HIGH SCHOOL FOLLOWING ONE TOO MANY ROUGH HITS ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD. » THEY ALL SAID THAT I NEEDED MY BACK FUSED BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CARTILAGE LEFT AND THE SPINE WAS DISPLACED.
Summary drawn from this video’s own transcript (banked in our research library, pulled 2026-11-07). Claims below are the speaker’s — attributed, not endorsed. This site publishes no dosing, protocol, or sourcing information.
Key points, in the speaker’s own framing
- BUT FIVE YEARS AGO, HE LEARNED ABOUT A NEW STUDY WITH PROMISING RESULTS IN TREATING CHRONIC PAIN WITHOUT DRUGS.
I HAD ALREADY DECIDED I WASN’T GOING TO DO SURGERY AND I DIDN’T WANT TO MEDICATE MY WAY Y THROUGH LIFE, AND SO I REPLIED TO THE STUDY » NO SURGERY, NO MEDICATION, DID YOU THINK IT WAS REAL?
Reporter: YONI ASHAR IS THE LEAD RESEARCHER FOR THE STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AND THE MAIN MEDICAL CAMPUS.
WELL, THAT’S WHY WE HAVE DATA THAT’S WHY WE DO STUDIES » Reporter: THE RESEARCHERS SAY EVEN THEY WERE SURPRISED BY THE RESULTS ON MRIs.
- AND THIS IS A BIG STUDY, 150 PEOPLE IN A PEER-REVIEWED STUDY.
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