- What exactly is lower back pain?
- Pain is your guide
- Our approach
- First aid
First of all it is imperative to understand that the area of pain is precisely the source of it without necessarily indicating the anatomical source of the condition.
Generally speaking, waist pain or buttock pain, which in some cases moves down to the lower limbs, is a typical clinical outlook of someone suffering from lumbar spine or simply lower back pain.
Just like in many musculoskeletal injury cases lower back injuries may force the individual to limit movement so that healing mechanisms take over. Thus, any kind of movement could trigger symptoms. Even more, in case you haven’t trained your body to bounce back from musculoskeletal issues with pharmaceutical treatments it would be wise to respect the pain and use it to your advantage. This is an important notice: PAIN IS NOT USELESS. On the contrary, pain is the greater weapon an individual owns if he wants to rehabilitate fast and appropriately. Pain is the guide that will allow the patient to understand whether movements, therapeutic manipulation and various activities burden the suffering area. Therefore, pain is the most important criterion for an accurate therapeutic approach.
First aid tips specify that first and foremost patients need to avoid resting in sitting position for over fifteen minutes, opt out for a high seat to rest or work, walk for five minutes multiple times per day and apply hot pads on the damaged area often in an upward facing position with hips and knees in 90° with the support of cushions. The prognosis will depend on how fast and diligent the patient is with the above measures. All of the above should be applied with no pain.
