Back pain
Did you know that more than 80% of people experience back pain at least once in their lives? Inactivity of the key spinal muscles, combined with prolonged sitting and incorrect repetitive movements, leads to back pain.
Lower back pain is often linked to pain appearing in the upper back. In sedentary jobs, such as office work or IT, neck pain is common because of poor head position for most of the day, and it then also affects the lower back, creating pressure and pain.
Lower back pain occurs as a result of muscle weakness and the muscles' inability to take on the load placed on the spine. When the muscles of the lower, middle or upper back are weak, the load shifts directly onto the discs, which causes disc displacement/disc leakage/disc prolapse or similar changes, better known as disc herniation or protrusion.
Back pain can be chronic or acute, and at our physical therapy centre we most often treat:
- Back pain (chronic or acute pain);
- Disc herniation;
- Nerve compression (sciatica, piriformis syndrome);
- Back stiffness;
- Post-operative rehabilitation.
On your first visit, we carry out an examination and assessment of your condition and start the therapy. We identify and pinpoint the cause of the back pain. The entire therapy depends on the diagnosis, which is why it is crucial to do it thoroughly. Back pain diagnostics consist of inspection, palpation and assessment, and based on all of this we define the next steps. In treating back pain, we combine manual therapy (massage, mobilisation, various special manual techniques), high-tech devices (TECAR and SIS) and kinesiotherapy for a long-term solution to back pain!