What is Lower Back Pain?
Back pain is a prevalent condition that affects millions around the world and in the UK. It can result from various factors, including poor posture, muscle strain, herniated discs, or underlying medical conditions.
Treatment often begins with conservative approaches such as rest, Hands on Treatments, and pain medication. However, for chronic or severe back pain, more specialized treatments may be required. These may include spinal manipulation, acupuncture, or even surgery in extreme cases.
Important
Seek your doctor or accident and emergency if you have back pain after a fall or injury. It is also important if you have back pain with bowel or bladder control issues, leg weakness or pain when coughing or urinating.
Assessment
Before any lower back pain treatment can occur, you will need to be assessed and a history taken.
The assessment will cover your medical history, what aggravates your back pain, what eases it, what medication you take and many more questions along with a mobility and muscle testing assessment.
This helps to build up a picture of what could be the exact cause of you lower back pain.
Treatment for Lower Back Pain
Once the assessment is done, lower back pain can be treated by Rob at Fully Fit Therapy using a number of different methods together.
1. Spinal manipulations can be used to help treat lower back pain when a specific vertebrae is causing an issue.
2. Muscles around your lower back might be also contributing to your lower back pain, therefore massage can be used to help ease your back pain off.
3. Medical acupuncture Rob can also use to help give pain relief for chronic lower back pain.
4. It is not just hands on treatment that can be used to help your Lower back pain. Exercises are also prescribed to help further reduce your symptoms. This can then get you back doing what you love.
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