This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Remove the term "slipped disc" from medical terminology and literature.
This commonly used phrase is a frequent problem for those who treat patients with chronic back pain. The notion can also be a psychophysiological obstacle for a sufferer of back pain. Research shows that just thinking that a disc has slipped has the potential to increase back pain in a sufferer.
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“Thinking that we have a slipped disc has the potential to increase back pain. But what if this piece of knowledge we have stored is inaccurate, just like our notion of a slipped disc? A disc is so firmly attached to its vertebrae that it can never, ever slip. Despite this, we have the language, and the pictures to go with it, and both strongly suggest it can" Dr. Lorimer Moseley.
“A disc is so firmly attached to its vertebrae that it can never, ever slip” Dr. Lorimer Moseley.
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