If you’ve got lower back pain, stiffness or an ache – it’s very tempting to think that it’s nothing, that it will go away on its own. Or, you pass it off as having just “slept awkwardly”, or that it’s just a “spasm” or a bit of stiffness that “everyone” your age suffers from…
There’s no obvious reason why it happened – but it doesn’t seem to be shifting!
If that’s happening to you, you’re not alone – and we hear this type of thing all the time. In fact, Lower Back Pain and Sciatica is THE most common problem that we see in our physio clinic.
So if you struggle to sit or stand for periods of time, your walking is reduced, you struggle to lift items up like the groceries, or pick up your children, then its time to do something about this back pain. Most people think that when they get Back Pain, it’s just going to go away on it’s own. That they’ll wake up one morning and like “magic”, it’ll be as if back pain never happened… But then 6 months later you’re still living with back pain – often even worse than it was when it came on.
If you don’t know what you’re doing – back pain can be very confusing and because of this, many people just end up accepting it as ‘part of life’ – as if it’s normal, and ‘just the way it is’.
Our approach to your back pain is looking at everything that is influencing your back pain and use the best research to guide your management.
Once we have gathered all the necessary information we need, we will formulate a treatment plan tailored to helping you get better.