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Back Pain: THE POWER OF ASSESSMENT… The worst part of a chronic back injury is the mental affect is has on you.

The feeling of hopelessness and having no control over the pain. You may have tried multiple different approaches…each with either limited or no long-term success…maybe even some things made it worse.

The key with success for lower back injuries is to begin with a thorough assessment first.

We MUST understand the problem clearly BEFORE we select our tools and propose solutions.

This month’s back pain questions answered.

Disc Bulges, Sciatica and Leg Weakness – Part 2.

Back in with Aidan this week.

Last week (first video) he came in with with a very active disc bulge that was causing sciatica and weakness in his left leg…

Aidan came in this week after a flare-up of a chronic sciatica pain caused by a disc bulge.

How did I know it was a disc bulge causing the sciatica?

We tested for it…

A fairly common situation can occur in chronic back pain cases where the client has had multiple scans and x-ray but nothing truly abnormal can be found, at least nothing that should be causing the pain.

Back Pain Questions: November. Some great questions this month.

1: Should you expect an increase in pain when beginning a rehab program?…

“I developed back problems in my late 20’s when I started running…so I was told to stop running. Over the following 30 years my back pain would improve then worsen but never went away – I had pain every day. I had a disc bulge in the L4-L5 and L5-S1 areas and would ‘put my back out’ every few years or so, sometimes just by tying up my shoelaces….”

Richard has been dealing with severe back back for just over a year and has a goal to be able to join his kids for a water polo tournament in Perth in January – a 5 hour flight that would have previously crippled him for a week.

After the principle of “It depends…” this is the next most important, useful and powerful concept to understand.