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20 articles

• Fundamentals

  Back Pain and Disc Problems: What Does an MRI Actually Tell You?

  An MRI shows anatomy, not pain. How to read disc degeneration, dehydration, bulges, protrusions, herniation and nerve compression in a lumbar MRI report.

  17 min read
• Treatments

  Percutaneous Hydrotomy: Patient Experiences, Reviews and Reported Results

  Pain, mobility and return to activity: what Centre Algos patients report after percutaneous hydrotomy, alongside the scientific context.

  10 min read
• Treatments

  Percutaneous Hydrotomy: Effectiveness, Safety and Scientific Evidence

  Percutaneous hydrotomy has been used clinically for decades, but what do the results and scientific evidence actually show? We examine pain and function, back-pain and osteoarthritis research, safety, disc rehydration, regeneration and structural imaging observations.

  19 min read
• Treatments

  Back Pain Without Surgery: What Are the Treatment Options?

  An abnormal MRI does not automatically mean surgery. How chronic back pain, disc herniation and sciatica can be treated without an operation.

  19 min read
• Fundamentals

  Chronic Inflammation: What Causes It and How Can You Reduce It?

  Chronic inflammation is persistent inflammatory activity that continues beyond the body's normal short-term response. It rarely has one universal cause, and an inflammatory marker is a clue rather than a diagnosis. Here is what drives low-grade inflammation, what blood tests can and cannot show, and how we investigate persistent inflammatory activity.

  19 min read
• Treatments

  Tendinopathy Without Cortisone: What Are the Alternatives?

  A cortisone injection can make a painful tendon feel dramatically better within a short period. Randomized trials show that this early improvement can be misleading: in several common tendinopathies, recurrence is high and longer-term outcomes are worse than with rehabilitation-based approaches. Here is what the evidence shows and which alternatives support tendon recovery.

  17 min read
• Nutrition

  Vitamin D and Autoimmune Disease: What Does the Science Actually Show?

  Low vitamin D is common in autoimmune disease, and vitamin D has a genuine role in immune regulation. But correcting a deficiency, preventing disease and using vitamin D therapeutically are three different clinical questions. Here is what the randomized evidence shows, how vitamin D is measured and where high-dose strategies require medical supervision.

  23 min read
• Nutrition

  Autoimmune Disease and Diet: What Role Do Gut Health, the Microbiome and Micronutrients Play?

  No single food causes autoimmune disease, but nutrition, micronutrient status, digestive health and the gut microbiome all interact with immune and inflammatory processes. Here is what the evidence supports, which investigations can help, and how we assess nutrition and gut health at Centre Algos.

  24 min read
• Naturopathy

  Fatigue Despite Normal Blood Tests: What Should Be Investigated Next?

  Still exhausted even though your blood tests are normal? Normal results are reassuring, but they do not necessarily explain persistent fatigue. Understanding what was tested, what the results actually show, and what your fatigue feels like can help determine what should be investigated next.

  22 min read