Physiotherapy for Back Pain helps to restore your movement and improve your movement of muscles and joints. Now a days; Physical therapist are using different types of equipment and techniques. Physiotherapist helps you to reduce back pain and restore your life. Physiotherapist also advice you diet according your pain. Your back is a very complicated bit of kit. There’s your spine with the nerves that run through it. At the back of those spinal bones are all sorts of other little joints that help to protect and stabilize your back. They’re also lots of ligaments and muscles that help to strengthen it.
Importance of physiotherapy for Back Pain
If you are suffering with back pain and the pain has been going on more than four weeks, you should consult a Physiotherapist. Physiotherapy can be useful for different types of back pain.
The most common kind of back pain is non-specific back pain. Which comes without any cause but it doesn’t cause problems, physiotherapist will help you to settle down with simple exercises.
The second common cause is sciatica which is nerve root pain where one of the nerves, the main nerve coming out at the bottom of the spine, the sciatic nerve gets pinched or irritated. In this case physiotherapist will teach you how to manage your daily routine and also help you for relieving this pain with exercises, manual techniques and equipment.
There’s something rare but very serious called cauda equina where you can get sudden weakness of your legs, problems with your bladder or your bowel or numbness around your bottom. In this condition physiotherapist will help you to restore your joints and muscles.
You can also get thoracic back pain, so most back pain is either low or around your neck, thoracic back pain is pain in the spine behind your rib cage. In this physiotherapist suggest you stretching and strengthening exercise and also teach you sitting posture.
Treatment
Stretching for Back Pain
Stretching is very important in back pain and muscles imbalance. It will increase the range of motion and flexibility of your spine. Its helps to relaxing muscle and repairing of fibers. For reliving back pain you have to do these exercises for back pain. Firstly you have to warm up your muscles. Then, double knee rotation stretch (laying on back, both knees are bent and keep both knees together and simply drop them one side and another side). Single knee to chest (keep right leg straight and hold left leg with both hands and pull up into chest). Lower back extension (prone on hands and pull your head up just like seeing sky hold it or 5 second).
Strengthening for Back Pain
Strengthening muscles is important in lower back pain. Back muscles just like stabilizer. When we bend our back, muscles stabilize our spine. So strengthening exercises you can do on daily basis. My first exercise is going to be a bridge (lay down on your back with your knees, bent both of your feet are flat on the floor, squeeze your hip and use that contraction to lift your hips up off of the floor, now as you lift up go as high as you can comfortably hold that contraction). Second exercise is like swimming (lay down on your stomach with your arms stretched out over your head then lift your right arm up off of the ground and your left leg up off the ground hold that for one to two seconds then return slowly to that starting position and repeat with your left arm and your right leg so, that is the swimmer looks like the key here is that enhance and focus on that glute contraction).
Manual Techniques
Manual techniques are very useful in lower back pain. It may include;
Joint mobilization (to mobilize the joint means movement of joint to increase the range of motion and reducing pain. It also used to manage musculoskeletal dysfunction).
Soft tissue massage (is a type of manual therapy, it helps to reduce the strain of joint and muscles, it also helps to reducing the severity of pain).
Spinal manipulation (combines moving and jolting joints. It relieves the pressure on joints. In neurological response to reflex the rapid changes in muscle tone, motor control and pain reduction).
Muscle energy technique (producing accessory movement and lengthening the muscles, it also improve the blood circulation to helping the muscles to become stronger).
Equipment
Physiotherapy equipment had a wide range but commonly used in lower back pain are;
- Short wave diathermy is applied to using electric or magnetic waves that produce heat. It mainly use to deep heating in soft tissues and joints.
- Ultrasonic therapy is an electrical-therapy producing sound waves that used in muscular spams, joint stiffness, Soft-tissue massage and reducing pain.
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) ) is producing electric current which helps to stimulation, this is also called electrical-therapy. It is used for pain relief.
- Jade therapy jade is a stone also known as miracle stone. It produces negative ion which helps to increase the healing process.
Now a days; back pain is very common and every back pain have different complications. So when you feel pain in your back you have to consult General Physician. If your pain goes on then you should consult a physical therapist .
