02-23-2015, 05:06 PM
Not too experienced, but when patients ask me about alternative treatments such as acupuncture I usually tell them that they're unlikely to hurt anything and if they make them feel better then I'm all for it. Different ballgame when patients tell me they want to try a juice diet to flush the cancer out instead of getting it cut out. For something like low back pain I would certainly try it myself before undergoing something surgical (depending on the circumstances obviously).