Chronic Lower Back Pain Canberra.

What the evidence says.

Chronic low back pain is the world's leading cause of disability, and the strongest evidence for treating it is exercise, full stop. No single exercise type wins, what matters is progressive loading, consistency and confidence. Equally important is what the evidence retired: bed rest, fear of bending, and treating scan findings as destiny. Disc changes appear in most pain free adults over forty; the scan describes your spine, not your future.

How I treat it.

The assessment looks well beyond the sore spot: how you walk, how you bend, what your hips and thoracic spine contribute, what fifty years of guarding may have built into your pattern. I have retaught clients to walk properly after decades of back pain that traced back to gait, and rebuilt movement in people told never to rotate again. The spine is built to move and load; the treatment is teaching it to do both with confidence again.

Programs blend graded strength work, movement retraining and hands on treatment for the muscles that have been holding on too tight for too long, with progress measured by validated scores and by the life things: sitting, lifting, gardening, sleeping.

What we aim for.

• Pain scores falling while capacity climbs, tracked with real measures
• Bending, lifting and rotating without bracing for disaster
• Flare ups that become rarer, shorter and less frightening
• Independence from the treatment table, not dependence on it