ShorelinePT_Is It Back Pain Or Sciatica

THE NEWSLETTER ABOUT YOUR HEALTH AND CARING FOR YOUR BODY NEWSLET TER COULD YOUR BACK PAIN BE CAUSED BY SCIATICA?

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individual’s pain responds to movements and postures, we can customize specific movement exercises and posture correction to immediately reduce pain. In fact, when using this method of treatment, we find that 80% of patients with back or leg pain have the ability to RAPIDLY REDUCE their pain and improve their daily function. Most patients in this group see significant improvement within 2 weeks. All by UNDERSTANDING their condition and implementing simple movements throughout their day. Education is the key, we EMPOWER the patient with the tools to get themselves better, and remain better. Understanding Back Pain Being educated about your back pain can help you make the right choices to overcome it as quickly as possible. One of the biggest problems with back pain is that it lingers. People can have episodes of back pain for years on end without seemingly any end in sight. One of the most common causes of this lingering pain is a lumbar disc bulge or degenerative disc disease (DDD). While DDD sounds like something awful, it is actually very common as we age, most pain free people over 60 years old have a form of DDD. Regardless, pain coming from a disc bulge or DDD is often RAPIDLY REVERSIBLE. The same evaluation and treatment described above can significantly reduce pain and improve function in a short period of time. Our MDT trained physical therapists can get you started on the road to recovery. And once you recover, you can reduce the frequency of episodes with a simple maintenance program!

Lower back pain is the most common type of back pain. Pain can be local to the lower back or even radiate in to the buttock, thigh or lower leg. Even stand alone pain or numbness in the leg can be referred from the back. Research says that two-thirds of people with back pain do not recall a specific injury that started their pain. The other one-third of back pain sufferers recall an injury such as lifting something heavy, falling, or being in an accident. Some common predisposing factors to low back pain include increased frequency of forward bending with work, prolonged periods of sitting during the day, and poor posture habits. Too many people consider back pain a normal experience in their lives and don’t immediately seek help that could make the pain an issue of the past. Working with a MDT trained physical therapist (all therapists at Shoreline Physical Therapy are MDT trained) is, hands down, the best thing that you can do when you are looking to overcome back pain. All physical therapy is not the same! Most physical therapists treat all patients with back pain with the same exercises to work on strength and flexibility without taking the time to truly understand how a patients back pain behaves and responds to movement and postures. In using this “cookie cutter” approach, the therapist is basically hoping the patient gets a little bit better. This is not how we treat low back pain and Shoreline Physical Therapy! At Shoreline Physical Therapy, our evaluation and treatment methods using MDT training are far superior to other forms of physical therapy. By LISTENING to the patient and THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATING how an

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