http://www.iasp-pain.org/AM/Template...ContentID=2083

I dunno, seems as if there are a whole SLEW of qualifiers about each and every diagnostic step!

I would be gun shy if it were me. Look at it all from the postitives? Alan can walk for some distances without days of pay-backs, can function fairly normally and needs no 'assistance' as many do [canes, walkers, wheelchairs] and Alan is not up all nite every night in agonies.

If you want to put those scarce dollars into this medical black hole, it's your choice. If I'd any druthers? I'd try finding a really really GOOD accupuncturist? At least there's less permanent damage and some good endorphins would be let loose. - j