Lower Back Pain Treatment
Physical Therapist in Fishers, IN
Low back pain can result from many different injuries, conditions, or diseases — most often, damage to muscles or tendons in the back. For example, you may experience back pain due to poor posture, vehicular motor accidents, or a lifting injury. Most acute low back pain is mechanical in nature, meaning that there is a disruption in the way the
components of the back (the spine, muscle, intervertebral discs, and nerves) fit together and move. Underlying conditions such as sciatica, herniated disc, spondylolysis, and spondylolisthesis can cause immense pain.
Degenerative disc disease is a common condition with aging and may experience dull, aching pain in the lower back. Back pain can range in intensity from a soft, constant ache to a sudden, sharp, or shooting pain. In addition, pain can go from mild to severe. In some cases, pain can make it difficult or impossible to walk, sleep, work or do everyday activities. Most low back pain is acute or short-term back pain that lasts a few days to a few weeks. Sometimes, the symptoms are required a few months to disappear.
Chronic back pain is defined as continuous for 12 weeks or longer. Even if pain persists, it does not always mean there is a medically severe underlying cause or one that can be easily identified and treated. Around four out of five people have lower back pain at some point. It’s one of the most common reasons people visit healthcare providers.
How Can Physical Therapy Help?
Usually, lower back pain gets better with rest, pain relievers, and physical therapy. Hands-on treatments (like osteopathic manipulation) can relieve pain and help to heal. The early stages of your physical therapy treatment will focus on pain modulation.
At Osteopractic Physical Therapist of Central Indiana, our experienced doctors will use exercise training interventions, including trunk muscle strengthening and endurance and specific trunk muscle activation, movement control exercise, aerobic exercise, and general exercise to reduce pain and disability for patients with low back pain. Thrust or non-thrust joint mobilization, soft tissue mobilization, neural mobilization, dry needling, pain neuroscience education, and active education strategies on the biopsychosocial contributors to pain and self-management techniques, such as remaining active, pacing strategies, and back-protection techniques.
Get started today!
Request your appointment at Osteopractic Physical Therapy of Central Indiana to get started and find out the specific nature of your low back pain with proven, evidence- based manual therapy and modalities that will restore natural recovery and reduce symptoms quickly.
