Often we focus on the limitations that back pain places on our respective lives. But what if you switched this thinking to focus on what your life would look like without back pain? What experiences would you be able to have?
Why does no one understand my back pain?
Imaging what your best life possible looks like will be unique to you. And this is analogous to back pain. Pain is personal! What you view to be 4 out of 10 pain, another views as 9 out of 10. Significant damage does not always cause significant pain. Equally, significant pain does not mean that there is significant biological tissue damage. The amount of pain you experience is a reflection of the amount of threat your brain believes you are under and not the amount of tissue damage.
What does this mean for physiotherapy management of my back pain?
The management plan implemented for you will be different to someone else’s. You will have different barriers to another person. Putting in place strategies to overcome these barriers is vital to moving you towards a better quality of life and ultimately experiences previously not felt possible.
What will a physiotherapist or chiropractor do?
1. Advice & Education: In most cases, your back or other areas are not ‘damaged’, they are just ‘angry.’ It is only natural for all of us to experience things like spinal degeneration as we age. People can have degenerated spines and be perfectly functional with no pain. Thinking positively and getting moving under the guidance of your physiotherapist or chiropractor is a highly effective way to manage your pain!
2. Graded Exercise: Strength is protective of injury and therefore pain. Gentle ‘motion is lotion.’ By completing regular graded exercise, your brain will begin to see movement as a normal thing, therefore decreasing the threat associated with certain movements. For example, do you have a goal of playing golf, yet are limited by your back pain? When we break it down, golf is movement and the spine loves movement. You just need to gradually reduce the threat and build up your exercise capacity.
Dream Big
We always have the capacity to choose the path we travel. Moving out of pain is an opportunity to cause a mindset shift to one of prevention. Through prevention we have the capacity to improve our mental resilience and physical robustness to complete our desired experiences. If you have any questions, give us a call on (07) 3399 3318.
*Always consult your doctor for pain that is severe and/or unfamiliar.
Aaron Hull
Physiotherapist
PEAK.
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