BACK PAIN

Back pain is a nuisance, mentally stressful and confusing.

I don’t know why there is often so much emotion packed into back pain. From my own personal and professional experience, I’ve noticed it is partially due to how we discuss back pain culturally, the fact that it can disrupt our life, it can be very painful or nagging and it is hard to fix.

There is rarely a quick fix BUT pain can often be driven from tight muscles, poor posture, daily movement patterns and other causes that we can easily change. It could be from a weak foot that is making one side of your low back muscles compensate or by doing too much strength. I use these examples because the causes are often not dramatic or scary but just how our bodies have learned to compensate and move.

I find that learning how your body works doing different movements, what activities you love to do, how you move or sit for work, past injuries, etc. are all pieces of the puzzle. PT is super fun that way or at least for me. :)

If you have any questions let me know. I have had an increase in patients recently with low back/pelvis/hip pain and have personally been navigating a few things so felt like sharing!

Happy Spring (and more snow)!