Back Pain Treatment In Lightwater
Expert back pain treatment from our clinic in Lightwater. We specialise in treating back pain, trapped nerves, muscle spasms and back stiffness. We use conservative therapies to treat the majority of our patients, ensuring we can help give you some relief. We’ve listed below a couple of the most common causes along with our methods of treatment at Lightwater Health & Chiropractic Clinic:
Back pain is estimated to affect between 60-80% of the population at some point during their lives (Macfarlane et al 1999). A good starting point in improving back pain is to know what the problem is and what triggers it. We specialise in treating back pain, trapped nerves, muscle spasms and back stiffness. We use conservative therapies to treat the majority of our patients, ensuring we can help give you some relief. We’ve listed below a couple of the most common causes along with our methods of treatment at Lightwater Health & Chiropractic Clinic:
Back Pain/Sprain
This is the most common type of back pain. The pain usually comes from injury to the ligaments, joints and muscles in the back. This can happen anywhere along the spine but is most common on the base of the spine, resulting in lower back pain, stiffness and discomfort radiating into the buttocks or legs.
Symptoms:
The pain normally presents itself as a sudden onset and patients will often describe a sudden sharp pain in their back when lifting or bending incorrectly, trauma or a fall. Symptoms can also present themselves gradually over time, usually from repetitive movements.
Treatment:
Symptoms can improve by using manipulation, mobilisation and massage.
Prognosis:
Most patients will make a full recovery between 1-5 weeks, depending on each individual case.
Herniated/Slipped Disc
This is normally the main cause for chronic lower back pain and pain into the legs. Between two vertebrae is an intervertebral disc. These are made up of several fibrous rings encasing a fluid filled sac and provide movement and shock absorption to the spine. A large amount of stress gets put onto our spines everyday making it relatively easy to injure an intravertebral disc with injury normally occurring either from a sudden force or by repetitive movements. This can weaken the fibrous rings and allow the jelly-like liquid to leak out, which can then press on either the spinal cord or a nerve exiting the spine.
Symptoms:
The type of pain can vary but is usually a sharp pain in the lower back and also pain, pins and needles or numbness into the leg (known as "sciatica"). Sleep is normally disturbed and sitting is extremely uncomfortable.
Treatment:
Disc problems can be treated using traction, manipulation and mobilisation to the surrounding joints. Also dry needling and massage can help to relieve symptoms along with an exercise program, including stretches. Lifestyle advice will assist to avoid recurrence.
Prognosis:
Herniated discs can be complicated as every case is individual. The average herniation takes 3 months to heal, some cases can improve more quickly and some can take longer. Recurrence depends on the severity of the initial injury and lifestyle.
