Hello everyone,
I was hoping you could help me. I am 19 and have been having really bad back pain, I have been having it for the past year. I went to my doctor and she told me to exercise and i have been for the past year, i even started yoga. My back will hurt throughout the day and especially when i wake up in the morning. I don’t know what to do, there are times when it gets really pain full it puts me on the verge of crying. What should i do??? I am also eating healthy, and drinking plenty of water but still the pain comes and goes. Please help:(

Welcome to North West Physiotherapy If youre in pain, are recovering from surgery, or you just need some advice.then we are here to assist you. Our philosophy is to get to the underlying cause of your problem. You become involved in the education of your condition and your treatment plan. Our physiotherapists approach to your problem will involve four phases: 1. Diagnosis We listen carefully to your problems and do specific tests to determine the cause. 2. Treatment We use a combination of joint mobilizations (not harsh cracking), stretches, soft tissue massage and electrotherapy. (eg Ultrasound and TENS) Computerised gait assessment, hydrotherapy, remedial massage and acupuncture are also available to assist in your recovery. 3. Home Exercises An individual, simple home program of stretches and strengthening. 4. Prevention Advice regarding posture, a change of pillow or your work environment. Our Physiotherapists On staff we have five full time physiotherapists : Roger McIntosh, David Goodwin,Tim West, Ian Alberts and Lily Allan – see our staff profiles on the link below for full details. We also have two part-time physios on staff with various special interests: Nathan Stella is available every Saturday morning. Nathan has an interest in acupuncture and has a Masters Degree from the University of QLD. Maree Sweetman is also available during school hours on Tuesday and Friday and comes to this clinic with 18 years experience. Check out our Staff Profiles to find out more …

Welcome to North West Physiotherapy If youre in pain, are recovering from surgery, or you just need some advice.then we are here to assist you. Our philosophy is to get to the underlying cause of your problem. You become involved in the education of your condition and your treatment plan. Our physiotherapists approach to your problem will involve four phases: 1. Diagnosis We listen carefully to your problems and do specific tests to determine the cause. 2. Treatment We use a combination of joint mobilizations (not harsh cracking), stretches, soft tissue massage and electrotherapy. (eg Ultrasound and TENS) Computerised gait assessment, hydrotherapy, remedial massage and acupuncture are also available to assist in your recovery. 3. Home Exercises An individual, simple home program of stretches and strengthening. 4. Prevention Advice regarding posture, a change of pillow or your work environment. Our Physiotherapists On staff we have five full time physiotherapists : Roger McIntosh, David Goodwin,Tim West, Ian Alberts and Lily Allan – see our staff profiles on the link below for full details. We also have two part-time physios on staff with various special interests: Nathan Stella is available every Saturday morning. Nathan has an interest in acupuncture and has a Masters Degree from the University of QLD. Maree Sweetman is also available during school hours on Tuesday and Friday and comes to this clinic with 18 years experience. Check out our Staff Profiles to find out more …

medicalmassage-edu.com To purchase DVD please click the link above For some reason, massage therapists that specialize in treatments of sport related injuries are calling this method sport massage. In my opinion, if someone sprains/strains the lower back, upper back, shoulder, knee, etc., by playing sport or working at home, or at the workplace, the pathology that will be developed due to kind of injury disturbing orthopedic status. Utilization of massage in cases of back and limb disorders we call orthopedic massage. There is no doubt that there is huge room for orthopedic massage available in sport rehabilitative medicine. It is proven that orthopedic massage therapy is a very effective tool in treating sport-related, industrial injuries, as well as helping people experience less pain in cases of degenerative diseases of the support and movement systems such as osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease and other types of spondylosis. Really sport massage that is utilized only in industry of sport is a pre-event sport massage and post-event rehabilitative sport massage. These two types of massage therapy are very important efforts in order to improve the athletes performances, to prevent to a maximum extent, sport related injuries, as well as to eliminate side effects of exercise stress/overtraining. 20 years ago, training in sport massage was limited to massage therapists who worked with professional teams, Olympian teams, etc. Nowadays, sport massage has value not only …

Okay well my back pain started in my cervical spine when I was 11, almost 12. About half a year later I was diagnosed with scoliosis (doctors did an x-ray of thoracic spine). Now I’m 15 and the pain is everywhere in my back (cervical, thoracic, lumbar). I begged my doctor to do an MRI, and at first he didn’t but after a couple of months of repeatably calling him and telling him please do an MRI, he agreed to an MRI of my thoracic and lumbar spine. I got my results back and they are normal Not that i want a back problem, but I have SEVERE pain, I can barely walk right and I can’t sleep in a bed, only in a recliner. Please help, I’m not making it up, my back hurts so bad and every night I cry. Please help me, I just want my life back

do back support belts really work? are there any other products that protect from back pain?
both my upper back and lower back hurt
how come i don’t see the answers here even if i see them in my email?

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I Spained/Strained my lumbar region while doing weighted squats 3 months ago. At the time i was using a tight belt to avoid this type of injury but i guess i didnt have right form as i hurt it anyway. At first i was in a ton of pain. My doctor sent me for an MRI and it came back normal. After about 6 weeks of physical therapy and taking it easy my back pain FULLY subsided.
So i decided to start to workout again, but this time no squats, no deadlifts, or anything that would be too much for my back. So all i did was lift up hand weights and then i heard a pop in my back WITH NO PAIN. The pain started about 24 hours later, not as bad as my original injury, but it hurts and when i move aroudn too much it aggrevates it. So i decided to stay away from weights PERMANENTLY.

I dont understand what is goign on. Ever since the original injury by back is much more suseptable to injury then ever before. Will there be a time when its FULLY back to normal or will i always need to watch my back forever? Or will it take many more months to get better? What can i do to get my back back to the way it was?

Remember my MRI came out normal so its definelty sprain/strain.

Any help please

Thanks!

I am 31 weeks pregnant and my pelvic area HURTS like someone has been kicking me in the same spots for weeks now and my doctor recommended a maternity support belt. Has anyone ever used one and how much relief did you actually get from it? I thought they were used for back pain so when he recommended it I was curious if it can really help the pain I have.

like my lumbar area? I have prescription flexeral but it makes me sleep too much, which means I can’t hardly function, when I have work and college. I wanted to try the back pain asprin but am skeptical on how it works. Any ideas or advice?