The Lower Back Pain Toolkit
This is a web site about lower back pain – it contains lots of useful information to help you understand and manage your back problem.
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The internet is full of sites about back pain, what makes this one different? |
- I’m a physiotherapist with years of experience treating back pain
(read more about me). I also have a passion for research which means the information on here is as reliable and up to date as I can find.
- I’m used to talking about back pain to my patients which helps me explain complex subjects in a way that makes them easy to follow.
- I offer practical suggestions based on the hundreds of different questions, stories and situations of the people I’ve worked with who have back pain.
Everything you need to know about lower back problems
Among other things here you can learn 
about the three main types of back pain.
Understand the importance of posture and get some great tips to improve your posture.
See some exercises for back pain - many with a video showing exactly how the exercise should be done
Find out about the latest thinking on pain and understand more about how your feelings and thoughts can affect pain.
Get in depth knowledge about simple lower back pain and sciatica.
Learn how to take care of your back if you are pregnant
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You will also find useful information about: |
- Anatomy – find out how wonderfully designed the human spine is.
- Tests – when should you get that X-ray or MRI scan?
- Back Pain Relief – what treatment works, what doesn’t, what is plainly absurd.
- The latest back pain news and research
I hope you find the information useful - please contact me if you would like to comment.
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An illustrated overview of spinal anatomy. Includes a description of the different parts of the human spine.
There are many types of problems that can be the cause of lower back pain symptoms. Luckily, the most common causes are not serious. Guidelines recommend that lower back pain is grouped into one of three main categories. This page outlines them and links to pages with more detail
If you have simple lower back pain, exercise may be a helpful way to manage it.Learn why and find out what sort of exercises may help.
A illustrated guide to exercises for lower back pain that will show you some core stability exercises.
Which lower back pain investigations and tests are useful? This page explains the difference between an X-Ray and an MRI scan and talks about their use in diagnosing simple lower back pain.
A discussion of the benefits of physical fitness for lower back pain. If you lack physical fitness you are more likely to get back pain than someone who takes some regular exercise.
In order to understand your back problem you need to understand a little about pain. Contains information about up to date thinking about pain and what influences it.
The Lower Back Pain Blog keeps you up-to-date with all additions and changes to the lower-back-pain-toolkit.com web site. Read the latest updates and subscribe here.
Information about treatments, techniques and products for back pain relief. Find out which ones really work.
Stretching can be a really helpful exercise for back pain.See some illustrated examples of back stretching exercises.
Dont underestimate the importance of posture - stooped posture or sustained poor positions can lead to lower back pain. It is such a simple thing to change and it can make a huge difference to the way you feel.
Lower back pain sciatica is a common problem although only 5 percent of people with back pain have sciatica it can be very severe and disabling if you do have it. Read all about the symptoms, causes and treatment of sciatica.
Sciatica home treatment advice - if you have recently been diagnosed with sciatica from a disc bulge there are some things you can do at home to help yourself.
If you have sciatica and physical therapy is recommended this is what you can expect.
Sciatica exercises are sometimes helpful for pain relief. If you are sure you have sciatica and if you are sure that you have no worrying symptoms then these exercises for sciatica may help.
This exercise for sciatica may be helpful in the early stages. See an illustration of this exercise.
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As many as 50 percent of pregnant women get back pain. Pregnancy back pain problems can be avoided and this illustrated section explains why women get back pain and how to manage it.
Many people think that the human spine is weak or vulnerable.Look closely at the spine and see how tough it is and how well designed it is to do its job.
Everything you need to know about the piriformis muscle and its role in piriformis syndrome. Find out how to diagnose and treat it.
The McKenzie exercise program involves identifying certain sub-groups of patients with lower back pain and prescribing exercises based upon those findings.But does it work?
Many of the benefits of physical fitness will also affect your lower back. Read an outline of the real benefits of physical fitness in managing lower back pain.
What is Physical Fitness? It is a combination of health related and skill related components. You need a reasonable amount of all of them to have good physical fitness.
You may hear people talking about the 5 components of physical fitness; these are the health related fitness components. If you are looking to manage your lower back pain by improving your physical fitness levels then they are a good place to start.
There are many ways to exercise and improve your health related fitness that don’t involve using a gym or joining a sports team. This hub section should point you in the direction of imformation on why you should exercise and how to go about doing it.
The latest Clinical Guidelines tell us we should be grouping the cause of lower back pain into one of three categories. This section is about the most common type of back pain - simple lower back pain.
Some new research shows surgery does not lead to better long term outcomes for someone with sciatic nerve pain.
Lower back pain symptoms can be felt in the low back but also in the hips and legs.
It is not at all uncommon for someone to have lower back and hip pain.
With more treatments and tests developed to relieve back pain over the last 10 years you would expect our care of back pain to be better than it used to be. A new study casts doubt.
These illustrated core stability exercises get you used to finding the mid point or neutral point between a fully arched back and a fully flattened one.
An illustrated core stabilization exercise to improve the strength of the trunk muscles.
