Back Pain

Symptoms

• Dull Ache or Sharp Pain: Lumbago is where one feels a persistent and mild discomfort or severe and sudden spasms of the lower back muscles. It is also possible to have a variation according to the movement or position relative to the main body. 
• Stiffness: Some patients suffering from back pain notice that flexibility of their back is impaired and they cannot move it as they used to. This stiffness is well known to be worse in the morning, or when the person has been inactive for most of the time. 
• Radiating Pain: Sometimes, pain can be referred to the regional location as in leg or arm pain in situations where a persons back is hurting. This is usually an indication of nerve damage and may be combined with feelings of pins and needs or/and numbness. 
• Muscle Spasms: Spasms of the back muscles occur as stiff, unsustained and uncontrolled movements that can be sharply painful and disabling. These spasms are usually as a result of something else that is wrong in the body. 

Postural Changes: This is because, when you are in a lot of pain, your body will constantly try to adjust itself so as to reduce the pain, and this may result in chronic back pain causing changes in posture. As can be seen here, this may lead to an imbalance or slumped looking position. 

Treatment

While at Spine Mantra we adopt physiotherapy interventions to deal with back pain optimally. Our approach includes: 

• Manual Therapy: The qualified physiotherapists apply touches to the body tissues and joints for movement and pain relief purposes. This may consist of massaging, mobilization of joints and carrying out stretching exercises. 
• Exercise Therapy: They recommend and create spinal specific, tailored exercise regimens that help to tone the abdomen, and increase the balance and suppleness of the spine. These exercises are quite individual as they depend on your particular condition and your fitness. 
• Postural Education: Consultation with our experts on keeping good posture while going about the daily activities will go a long way in minimizing further episodes of back pain and learning how to take care for you spinal well being in the long run. 
• Pain Management Techniques: We educate you on numerous ways to manage your pain, and some of them are applying heat and cold packs, relaxation, and practicing useful changes in ergonomics among others. 

Diagnosis 

At Spine Mantra, we employ a comprehensive approach to diagnose back pain accurately:

• Detailed Medical History: First, we collect data about your condition and the signs of your problems, including pains and aches in the back and other parts of the body, medical records, and other information that can define common factors that negatively impact overall wellbeing. 
• Physical Examination: Specifically, our physiotherapists take the clients through simple flexibility tests, muscle strength assessment and manual sensitivity tests of the affected region. 
• Postural Analysis: We evaluate how you stand and sit so as to establish if you have any postural distortions that could be causing your back pain. 
• Functional Movement Screening: This is done in order to assess if you have any compensatory movements or any restricted range of motion in the movements you do. 
• Specialized Tests: Based on this, particular tests may be recommended for diagnosing disorders that affect the nerves, joint stability and even muscle strength. 
• Imaging Referral: If required we may suggest imaging tests like X rays, MRI, CT scan etc for further evaluation of your spine structures. 

At Spine Mantra we know how literal pain translates to when your back is affected and how it shows in your day to day lives. We have a team of professional physiotherapists to assist in caring and contributing values towards ensuring that you defeat those nagging back issues that have affected your quality of life.