Lower Back Pain

Physio Elements provide a range of treatments that can help you recover from your lower back pain and prevent the problem form recurring. Most people suffer from some lower back pain during their lives, which can be mild and fleeting or severe and long lasting. Physiotherapy can greatly assist in finding the cause of your lower back pain, treating the problem and helping to prevent its recurrence.

What causes lower back pain?

Everyone experiences backpain differently, but generally it can be a dull throbbing pain or a sharp, shooting and tingling pain. The actual pain can originate in your bones, muscles, nerves, joints or connective tissues, but it can also be referred into your hips and down your legs. Causes can include weak back muscles, poor posture, sitting for long periods of time, poor physical condition, and lifting or bending incorrectly. Other causes include damage to the discs between your vertebrae, compression of root nerves, pulled muscles or ligaments in your back. Also sporting injuries, car accidents, falls, arthritis, slipped discs, narrowing of the spinal column, ruptured discs can all result in lower back pain.

How can we treat your lower back pain?

Early treatment is key to reducing your lower back pain, but first we need to identify the cause by clinically assessing the spine and may also include an MRI, CT scan, X-Rays, nerve conduction studies or an EMG to assess the electrical activity in the muscles.

With a clear diagnosis, we will create a treatment program tailored to your specific needs, which may include hands on manual therapy, movement and strengthening exercises, pain management and TENS. Healing your lower back pain will not happen overnight and may require ongoing treatment until the actual cause has been resolved. Clinical Pilates also helps with the recovery.

How can you prevent lower back pain recurring?

If there is an underlying cause for your lower back pain then that needs to be addressed to prevent a recurrence. Otherwise, movement, posture and strengthening exercise can help, as can correct lifting and bending techniques. For help healing your lower back pain and preventing it happening again, please call us on 03 9729 7777 or send us an email enquiry.