The Myth: Moving will make my back pain worse
Fact: Keeping moving can help you recover as gentle normal movements can be very beneficial to your recovery and these movements also help to reduce the fear of moving.
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Our expert clinicians have proven skills in manual therapy and exercise prescription.
We believe treatment should be specifically tailored depending on your condition.
This could involve specific joint mobilisation or manipulation and soft tissue techniques.
We aim to then provide a lasting solution to your condition with a corrective exercise programme to help strengthen, align and reinforce any hands-on treatment.
In this way, you will be empowered to help your own recovery rather than a reliance on a passive approach to care.
Fact: Keeping moving can help you recover as gentle normal movements can be very beneficial to your recovery and these movements also help to reduce the fear of moving.
Fact: In some specific cases, this is required, however, most cases of mechanical, non-specific spinal pain will not show any change on a scan. Sometimes unnecessary imaging can cause more fear and reluctance to exercise.
Fact: Recent research in pain sciences show that pain messages are generated well before tissue damage and physiotherapy can help educate people as to why they are in pain, which can help their understanding and recovery.