{"id":266,"date":"2007-06-24T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T11:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/06\/24\/bmj-23-jun-2007-vol-334\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T11:38:16","slug":"bmj-23-jun-2007-vol-334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/06\/24\/bmj-23-jun-2007-vol-334\/","title":{"rendered":"BMJ  23 Jun 2007  Vol 334"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sciatica is a clinical diagnosis which is usually easy to make but hard to manage. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/extract\/334\/7607\/1313\">worthy Dutch review<\/a> can find no evidence that any form of analgesia works, and claims that CT is as good as MRI at detecting disc herniation <!--more-->\u2013 though this finding in itself is not diagnostic, because it can be found in up to a third of asymptomatic people. It is a rotten condition which can trap people in a cycle of pain \u2013 for a Harvard Prof of Medicine\u2019s experience see chapter 5 of <em>The Anatomy of Hope<\/em> by Jerome Groopman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sciatica is a clinical diagnosis which is usually easy to make but hard to manage. This worthy Dutch review can find no evidence that any form of analgesia works, and claims that CT is as good as MRI at detecting disc herniation [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/06\/24\/bmj-23-jun-2007-vol-334\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}