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Show Your Health Surgery May Clear Up Stubborn Back Pains By immea W. Barton, M.D. When pain occurs at the back of tha neck and la the shoulder and arm. w naturally think it la rheumatism, caused by sitting by an open win-dow win-dow or m a drift of aome kind. j Applying neat or taking aaptrin ( grrea relief for a time, but the pain fttitnl That this neck and shoulder pain I often Is caused dv r a-.a. 1 ported one of an extra or cervical rib, and the other of a crushed disk (cushion between two of tha spine bones of tha neck). Ia both these cases, treatment for other conditions condi-tions had been given without obtaining ob-taining relief from tha pain. Pea Posture Pactar In addition to the extra rtb and crushed disk being found to be causing nock, shoulder and arm pain, a more recently found cause la poor posture and a alouchy way of carrying tha shoulders. Poor posture may be caused by general tiredness or weakneea, or by working work-ing In a bent or stooped position for long periods of time. In those casee. relief from pain is obtained during the day by standing and sitting tall, at night lying with arms outstretched In line with the shoulder. This keeping the shoulders shoul-ders raised lifts tha pressure off the nerve or nerves and relieves the pain. Released by BeO Syndicate, Inc. pressure on the Ihr. Barton nerve from the spinal cord ia now known, and if the pain cannot be relieved by alcohol injection, surgery sur-gery to remove pressure ia nccsa aery. I have written before of the number of eaaee of painful neck and ahoulder caused by tha pressure pres-sure of an extra rib or spur on the neck bones of the spina. By surgical removal of this piece of bone, relief from pais immediately occur. Sometime a part of one of, the ahoulder muecla hi causing caus-ing pressure on the nerve and la reaponnM for the pain. Diana sen 4 aa Neuritis In the Pennsylvania Medical Journal. Dr. A. F. Jones point out 1 that pala in the ahoulder and up- par arm frequently la dismissed i as "neuritis," or treated by beat or salicylates with Indifferent or I poor result, whereas the pain 1 often la caused by a condition that : can be removed by surpery. i In some cases, exercises that "lift" the shoulders upward and back give reli-f without the need tor surgery. Two caeca ara re-1 |