How we manage Low Back Pain at Fighting Fit Physiotherapy
- Education
Education is the single most important treatment in lower back pain.
At FightingFit we will help you learn and understand the causes of a back injury. All tissues in our body are designed to heal, but pain is an individual experience and will affect everyone differently.
It is important you understand that not all pain is a result of tissue damage and that other factors within the nervous system can be at play during phases of healing and sometimes continue beyond reasonable time frames resulting in long standing pain complaints.
Understanding the contributors to your injury, the experience of back pain, how to best manage every single step whether acute or chronic back pain to get a long standing result, is the most important thing.
- Early return to activity/function
Another important factor in low back pain is returning to movement quickly.
We will help you begin moving again in the safest and most effective way possible.
Each exercise and movement will be tailored and appropriate to the time of injury and pain experienced.
As your function improves, pain decreases and movement returns to normal, we will progress you each step of the way.
- Manual therapy
In order to assist you moving better we may use a variety of ‘hands on’ techniques to assist in easing things like muscle tone, reduce guarding and improve stiffness that commonly accompanies back pain.
Manual therapy is used closely with exercise and an early return to activity plan to maximise results.
- Exercise
Exercise is one of the most important treatments for the long term management of lower back pain.
At FightingFit physiotherapy we have a fully equiped private gym for our patients.
This allows us to help you build up your muscle strength, address any tightness and help you move better in a supported and supervised environment under the guidance physiotherapists and exercise physiologists.
Our aim is to build up your capacity and regain that tissue tolerance so that things like gardening, running, surfing, sports, and working is easy and achievable for you every single day.
“the Back is designed to move, not sit, rest and stiffen up!
