Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...size man, but he was tiny as a boy, and, he says, "I used to get the bejesus kicked out of me regularly in school." The result wasn't any artistically fruitful psychological trauma, as far as he knows; it was that he learned to anesthetize himself from pain. As he observes now, "That isn't a very
Papaya injections alleviate lower-spine pain...
Keith Elliott of Rumson, N.J., was desperate for help. Two of the spongy discs separating the vertebrae in his lower back had herniated, pressing on spinal nerves and causing excruciating pain. The 40-year-old business executive could either choose surgery to remove the "slipped" discs or go to Canada for a simpler, much ballyhooed but controversial therapy. The treatment: injection of chymopapain, a substance derived from the tropical papaya fruit...
...chymopapain, another papaya enzyme, could be used to dissolve the similarly gelatinous core of herniated discs. From 1964 until 1978 more than 15,000 patients had chymopapain injected into their discs in FDA-approved experiments. The chemical proved to be as successful as a laminectomy in relieving pain: about 70% of patients improved with either therapy. In 1971, chymopapain was approved for use in Canada, Britain and Australia. But a study of almost 100 patients in the U.S. showed that placebo injections were just as effective as chymopapain. That controversial experiment led the FDA to withhold approval...
Salem says he spent the summer fearing for his father, unable to concentrate on anything. He says, however, that in the midst of the country's pain, he noticed new feelings rising between religious groups. The world he uses is "love...