Low Back Pain

Back pain is very common problem and common cure.

Low Back Pain (LBP) - simple cure but not so simple to do.

Pain in the low back region is the most common muscular skeletal disorder of industrialised societies today and the number one cause of disability in persons under the age of 45.

The ABS in 2001 stated that about 819,000 Australians over age of 15 reported that LBP with sciatic leg and feet pain is "the most common long-term condition related to work and caused by an injury received at while at work.." Lumbar disc and joint injuries were the most prevalent of any work related injury.

What is the cause of LBP?

Regularly you can find there is a link between a persons current posture, work habits, home recreational activities on top of old childhood injuries. We find that by the time a person is working they have received numerous minor disc injuries while growing up. These are usually caused by regular childhood games, sports, falls and tumbles.

Pelvic Torsion Syndrome (PTS) would be, in our opinion, the most common underlying cause of LBP that leads to disc lesions and sciatica. Even a disc lesion has an underlying cause - this is the PTS.

Solution

The way to correct this is quite simple but does take some skill to accomplish it well. The cranial osteopathic approach (as well as some chiropractic) uses the cranial mechanism to find which way the pelvis is twisted. We then unwind this twist and - most of the pain is gone almost miraculously and with no relation to disc bulges or prolapsed.  However, sciatic pain due to disc herniation will inevitably require much more work if the bulge is pressing against the nerve.