Pain in the back and lower back

Preventive exercises for back and lower back pain

A video with preventive exercises and explanation of therapy in our Center:

In the video, you will see how the disc herniation occurs, what preventive exercises are important to do and how we treat this injury, that is, painful condition in our physiotherapy Center.

Back pain - causes

The causes of pain can be various. We will introduce you to some of the most common causes and guide you through the entire process of how disc herniation happens. Back pain can occur due to prolonged sitting in one position or continuous performance of the same activities (standing, carrying heavy objects, etc.). This is when pain in the muscles of the back starts. We usually ignore it, which is the first mistake, as the body unmistakably gives us signals that there is a problem. By continuing the activity while in pain, and without preparing the muscles, the process that leads to degenerative changes on the vertebral body and the disc located between the vertebrae is accelerated. As the last phase, there is neurological pain which is caused by pressing the displaced disc onto the root of the nerve that passes along the spine, more precisely due to migration, i.e., moving the disc into the spinal canal that presses the nerve root. Back pain very often "descends" along the leg and backside, goes to the back of the thigh, all the way to the calf, and even to the toes. Certainly, the pain that spreads laterally, which indicates central pressure on the spinal cord, is not be ignored. This is a more difficult phase, to which people very often do not pay much attention.

Pressure on the spinal cord or nerve root can cause the foot to fall or uncontrollable urination

In the video clip, you can watch an MRI scan with examples of all forms of disc herniation.

Also, the video shows incorrect and then correct ways to:

1. lift heavy objects,
2. take and turn with heavy objects,
3. get up from a lying position.

Preventive exercises for back and lower back pain:

In addition, we will share with you some preventive exercises:

• exercise 1 – lifting the torso
• exercise 2 - hand pressure on the opposite knee
• exercise 3 - lifting the pelvis off the mat
• exercise 4 - pressure with both hands on both knees
• exercise 5 - lifting the torso along the opposite knee
• exercise 6 - abdominal contraction
• exercise 7 - raising the opposite arm and opposite leg

How are back pains that lead to disc herniation treated?

If the last phase of disc herniation pain has occurred, if the back pain became unbearable, both during the day and at night, you can solve this problem in our Center. In the Physiotherapy Center Fizionova, there are Protocols according to which treatment for certain diagnoses is performed.

For disc herniation treatment, Protocol number 4 is applied. This Protocol contains many therapeutic procedures. Let’s go through its process:

The first and very important therapy is the manipulation and after that, the decompression of the spine itself, which is done on a Chattanooga Triton DTS traction table.

The next therapy that’s applied is the RSQ1 device treatment. After that, we do kinesitherapy, where the RSQ1 treatment with high-frequency current increases the number of motor units and reduces the inflammatory process - 21 minutes of this treatment substitutes an hour and a half of exercise time.

The next therapeutic procedure is combination therapy, which represents the application of electrotherapy and ultrasound at the same time. With this combination of electricity and ultrasound, with one gel, we get the so-called sonophoresis.

This is followed by Irradia cold laser treatment, where we affect precisely the site of pain and the reduction of inflammatory processes, both at the nerve root and at the site of injury.

The last therapeutic procedure which is indispensable for this problem is Salus Talent - a high-frequency magnet. With its penetration of over 10 cm, we manage to repair the damage to the disc itself, act on inflammatory processes and accelerate collagen production.

With more severe forms of disc herniation, which are accompanied by severe radiculopathy, hypobaric therapy is included after the 4th or 5th therapy.