Lower Back Pain Treatments That Work [eBook]

[Except from the book]. The book is 30+ pages long! It is part 3 of a book series.

Part 1: 6 Powerful Exercises To Reduce Lower Back Pain - A Guided Framework That Will Change Your Life Forever
Part 2: Understanding Lower Back Diagnosis & How To Not Let Dr. Google Lead You Towards Failure

Introduction

At this point, you’ve probably tried exercises from my first book or even our Youtube channel. In my second resource we covered diagnoses and learned that most people with lower back and referred hip pain suffer from 1 of 3 root cases (based upon percentages): disc injuries, pinched nerves or central sensitivity created by chronic pain.

These account for the astronomical majority of lower back and hip pain cases. Even with other associated symptoms like tight hip flexors, hamstring inflexibility and weak glutes. Many of these associated symptoms accompany these three diagnoses.

I’ve told you that movement is the medicine. You should believe that with the right program, you will become pain-free again.

Remember: the longer you have been dealing with your problem, the more likely that you’ll require assistance from your team. Don’t try to do this alone.

Now let’s get into the common treatment approaches, where they fit in and how we can use them within the parameters of current research and the MAP a Load Framework?

In each section, I’ll go through the proper application of the following treatments. You may be thinking, “will one of these treatments work for me?” As cliche as this may sound, it always depends. Every situation is unique.

While reading through this, you may find yourself mentally defending one, or many, of these treatments. That’s understandable. I’m not here to promote, nor bash treatments. I’ll just give you my personal experience, just as Tim Ferriss did in his books. 🙂

If one of these treatments works for you, then great! Sounds like you found something you needed at that point in your recovery journey. I’m glad you’ve found something that worked!

I believe that all treatments will work under the right circumstances. They can fail under the wrong circumstances, with my MAP a Load Framework included.

If you find that pain returns daily, weekly or monthly, you may want to reconsider what it means to have a treatment “work”. Team members can be helpful in finding out the long-term effectiveness of a treatment.

When you find the right treatment (or collection of treatments ), you’ll notice that your improvement lasts longer and longer. That’s progress!

At Performance Place, we find passive care treatments are the types that allow pain to return more quickly. Yet, they are fantastic at reducing or Modifying pain. The treatment just doesn't “stick.” Passive care treatments are ones that people do to you and require very little effort from you.

If one of your team members suggests these types of treatments, I’m not saying they are useless. We recommend some of these weekly for certain clients.

Passive treatments are great when used for the right condition, with the right person, at the right time. No single treatment is the only treatment the person will need forever. People normally require a collection of treatment strategies. Think of it like baking a cake! Baking does not go well using a single ingredient.

In my experience, people “grow out of” passive treatments. Active treatments like corrective exercises, mobility work, stretching and weight training take over where the passive therapies end.
Please see this section as it is intended. Let’s not ruffle feathers. Talk to your recovery team and ask them to help you identify where to start your treatment.