Low Back Pain Blog
I've spent the last 7+ years looking into the research around back pain. Let me summarise it for you!
Category Work Injuries
Injury timeframes
The timeframe or stage of the disorder is obviously important as it will necessitate different priorities in management.
Motion is lotion!
Fun fact: we can actually build up a healthy reservoir of lubricin in our joints with lots of movement! Remember, rest is rust and motion is lotion!
Pain is truly multifactorial
Imagine you’re a cup. Now imagine all of the factors that contribute to pain and/or injury is liquid in the cup. The metaphor says that we experience pain when the cup overflows.
Pain can change how we look and act
Functional behaviours are concerned with how your pain physically manifests (e.g., postures, altered movement etc.).
Let’s talk lifestyle and your pain!
Doing too little can make you an avoidance coper, and doing too much can make you an endurance coper.
Treating the ecosystem
Yellow flags are an umbrella term referring to the thoughts/beliefs, feelings/emotions, and communal/social factors that contribute to the pain experience.
10 surprising things re: low back pain
Regarding low back pain, you could probably stack paper to the ceiling (likely a few times over) considering the amount of research that’s been done!
My rehab guide, summarised
The entire rehabilitation process has been aptly summarised by Greg Lehman when he said, ‘calm shit down, build shit back up.’
How important is a specific diagnosis?
Red flags are signs and symptoms that refer to sinister or serious medical conditions requiring urgent, specific medical intervention.