Back pain is not only painful, but also very disruptive to daily routines and lifestyle. Most of our patients will skip work for days, and sometimes they’re even confined to their beds or chairs for most of the day.

Unfortunately, around 60-70% of adults suffer from back pain. That’s a minimum of 6 adults out of 10 adults! Of these 6, it gets worse for 3 of them: 50% of them will have long term back pain, where the back pain doesnt go away…for months if not years.

That’s hard and painful.

As physiotherapists, that’s not something that want to hear for our patients. We want them to be fully healed and fully pain free to go back to activities, responsibilities and life as before.

Questions before starting back pain physiotherapy:

1. What is the exact cause of the back pain? Do you remember the accident or event that led to the back pain? Or the disease? If you’d done imaging works before, such as xrays/CT scan/MRI, what does the report say? Is it more so muscles, ligaments, joints or others?
2. Does the patient have a risk to back injury/pain because of lifestyle, sports or postural habits? Is it because of specific postures or imbalances over a period of time? Or particular hobbies such as carrying pets that led to the pain?

How spinal physio can help your back pain

1. Understand what kind of conditions / injuries that caused and/or aggravating your back pain
   
2. Find out the limits of any activities you want to do, and how to work around pain and activity tolerance
3. Treatment, we will help patients firstly to manage their pain using
   • providing ultrasound therapy to accelerate localized soft tissue healing
   • muscle electrical stimulation to decrease muscle spasms
   • soft tissue management to decrease swelling and inflammation, you can consider using massage guns (gently) as well as pain creams
   • cold compression to decrease muscle spasms and localized swelling
   • traction home kit to stretch out spasmic muscles
4. Then we’d work on the real core stuff that cause / aggravates back pain, such as
   
   • lots manual therapy to deal with the hard-to-reach-deep tissues
   • core strengthening with pilates (matwork in the beginning, then progress to reformer pilates when ready)
   • balance training using balance boards, bosu balls and more

If you work from home or plan to spend more time working from home

We had soooooo many patients coming to us when there was a great shift of people who work from home…because it was so sudden, they had to use make-shift setting for their work from home.

Many worked from their dining table, some from coffeeshops, some on their beds – it’s not surprising that many of them develop body and limb injuries and pains from those less-than-ideal work postures!

So you’d need to consider home modification eg making your home office more suitable for you, such as introducing

• adjustable standing table
• adjustable ergo chair
• screen / monitor stand
• ergo keyboards
• ergo mouse
• etc

Where To Next?

• Go to Home / Start
• Learn and find out more about your pains (bones, muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments, nerves etc) at Pain Conditions & Injuries
• Visit our shop to see products we recommend for pain relief, heating, treatments and more
• Contact us