SCIATICA CURED IN TEN MINUTES

Evening Star, Issue 22452, 24 September 1936, Page 1

SCIATICA CURED IN TEN MINUTES

ASTONISHING CLAIM FOR NEW TREATMENT It is estimated that over a quarter of a million people in Britain are suffering from sciatica or other kindred ailments. Here is cheerful news for the sufferers. It is claimed that sciatica can be cured completely in 10 minutes. In a large clinic, only a few steps from the Marble Arch, four West End doctors are having most extraordinary results with a new arid simple treatment for this terrible and crippling disease. ' Sciatica is an • inflammation of the sciatic nerve which may result in permanent crippling, and which is always accompanied with intense and agonising pain. The treatment up to the present has been merely temporary. Electrical therapy has improved the condition in some cases, in others hypnotic drugs and morphia have been used just to dull the pain. The new discovery—which has already been practised in Canada—is absolutely harmless and perfectly simple. In sciatica, after the inflammation has died down, the nerve or nerves become i attached to their sheath-like covering in the same way that a deeply cut finger will adhere to the bone. The adhesion causes the terrible, pain. The new treatment, by an injection, which is a solution of _ various salts, actually separates the inflamed _ nerve from its sheath, and.so returns it to a normal position. Immediately this'happens, the pain disappears, and the patient is cured. This cure can be followed by simple home massage, where general condition and circulation is bad. Another new aspect of medical therapy is also being taken by these four doctors. (No patient coming to them is given treatment until he or she has been completely examined all over. Each doctor is a specialist in one particular branch of medicine. In this way, eyes, throat, lungs, heart, stomach nerve, etc., .are all examined for possible subsidiary trouble. Then attention is paid to the local sciatic trouble. Here is an instance. A maternity nurse had suffered terrible pajn in her right leg for six months. Diet, massage, and electrical treatment did nothing to relieve it. Eventually she went to the clinic. In six minutes her pain had gone, and she has been perfectly well ever since. • Then there was a man with both 'arms up over his chest. . / ■ He , was . crippled in this for •iriafiy. mouths’'." ■ ' p's. After an'injection he walked out of the clinic waving both arms above his head in an ecstasy of relief. The doctors, like most English medical men, are very modest and quiet over their, discovery. They see no reason why this treatment should not eventually be used quite successfully for- all those kindred diseases of sciatica caused by the adhesion of an inflamed part. This would cover such present-day scourges as rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, and other similar muscle afflictions. .... The charge at the clinic is always within reach of the patient’s pocket, and covers examihation, local tests, and injection.