Lower back pain is one of the most common injuries experienced by humans today. Be it chronic lower back pain as a result of longer periods of sitting in the workplace or a sudden intense injury that involves a disc bulge or nerve entrapment, hands-on treatment combined with specific rehabilitative exercise has been shown to be as (if not more) effective as the use of painkillers and surgical interventions.
At Rock Therapy, we try to involve you in the resolution of your lower back pain as much as possible. Early in your sessions our practitioners will always do whatever they can to reduce your pain when you first come in; massage, dry needling, joint manipulation or shockwave therapy might be used to help reduce the amount of pain you’re in, even during your first session. This may include light movement and activation style exercises to reduce the amount of pain and avoid any loss of strength and muscle wasting associated with prolonged episodes of lower back pain.
Once your pain has been reduced to manageable levels, we will then move onto figuring out why this injury happened in the first place, and develop an exercise or mobility/stretching regime to try and reduce the chances of you experiencing lower back pain again. Throughout this period we may continue to use hands-on treatment, to ensure the body isn’t responding negatively to this new style of exercise.
As with any injury, there may be situations where we will have to refer out for imaging or other investigations to help determine exactly what is causing your lower back pain, however more often than not, we’ll be able to treat during your initial consult to reduce the amount of pain you’re currently experiencing.
If you have any questions regarding our approach to treating lower back pain and whether or not it’s the right option for you, feel free to contact us here.
All of the team here at Rock Therapy are avid rock climbers and train regularly. So we know firsthand all about muscle strains, joint and ligament pain and all types of injuries. Your treatment will be tailored specifically to your body, your injury and the pain you’re experiencing. No standard treatments here, we’ll also listen to your problems. So! If you want to get back to work, sport or just living without pain, Rock Therapy can help, click the “Book Now” button below.
