>I do. I've had issues with a pinched nerve in my neck a couple of times, most recently last spring. The physical therapist (US version of physiotherapist < s >) did a couple of things. First, she had me doing a variety of exercises designed to strengthen all the muscles in the affected area.
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>In addition, she put me in traction for 15 or 20 minutes at a time. While my mental image of traction involved casts on arms and legs and lots of hanging metal bars, the actual device used was quick simple. The idea of the traction was to pull the spine out a little in order to let the tissue that was out of place get back into place. It never hurt and after a few weeks, I was much better.
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>Finally, we did some work with posture to help me avoid the problem in future.

That sounds much more like conventional medicine.