Conditions We Treat
Back Pain Bromsgrove
Is your back pain affecting various aspects of your life, such as your sleep and your ability to engage in activities you love?
What is Back Pain?
Back pain is one of the most common reasons that people attend our clinic.
It may commence as a niggle, progress gradually, or develop suddenly, causing a variety of limitations in your life.
Our approach to treating back pain involves distinctive manual therapies and the core control program, ensuring that your back possesses the strength and capacity to handle the pressures of everyday life.
There can be various reasons why you experience back pain, and these causes may not be limited to your back alone. We aim to determine these causes, devise a treatment plan tailored to your condition, and help you resume the activities you desire without any pain.
Back Pain Treatment Bromsgrove
Midlands Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic provides physio care for lower back pain and proudly services the local Bromsgrove community.
Back pain in the lower region is a highly prevalent condition, with as many as 80% of the population experiencing it at some stage in their life. Although the underlying pathology of low back pain is typically not severe, it is a significant source of pain in the community and has a substantial impact on the economy due to work absences. Although most patients recover from back pain within six weeks, a small number may develop chronic back pain and a gradual decline in function.
Causes of Back Pain
Most back pain is caused by irritation or poor function of the bones, joints, ligaments, or muscles in your back. Vertebral dysfunction, a prevalent condition that arises when the spinal vertebrae compress or irritate the sensitive nerve structures in your lower back, may be the root cause of such irritation.
Inflammatory arthritis (such as ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis) and fractures caused by osteoporosis are among the other causes of lower back pain. Additionally, back pain may be referred from other areas.
Less common conditions causing low back pain include cancer (usually from another source such as the prostate or lung), serious infections and compression of the spinal cord.
Assessment of Back Pain
Your physiotherapist will perform a detailed history, orthopaedic, neurological, and spinal examination to identify the exact cause of your lower back pain. Other assessments, such as x-rays and digital scanning, may also be recommended.
Treatment for Back Pain
In the treatment of low back pain, physiotherapy focuses on restoring function to spinal joints that are moving poorly, as well as reducing muscle tension and increasing muscle strength. This results in improved movement, reduced pain, and decreased nerve irritation.
Treatments are tailored to the individual case usually consisting of spinal and soft tissue mobilisation, core stabilisation advice, strengthening exercises, stretching and heat/cold therapy. Please contact us to arrange your comprehensive lower back consultation to help identify the exact cause of your back pain and begin a course of corrective treatment today!
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