Total Function Physiotherapy

10/06/2020

Back pain myths

Great post by :
"Last year we published an titled.. 'Back to basics: 10 facts every person should know about back pain'

Today we're sharing some helpful videos to support that editorial. You can watch both the long or a short form videos by heading to our Instagram TV page 📺

You will also find the link to the original paper and infographic by following the link in our bio 👍

Kudos to the team for putting this effort into sharing the resources they have created!

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22/09/2019

08/09/2019

Great info from "trust me im a physiotherapist" page on chronic pain

13/05/2019

“Slipped discs” – a common term that I´ve heard a lot since becoming a physio, but its actually a very inaccurate and misleading term! Discs cant slip! Our discs, and in fact our backs, are actually very strong and resilient.
You CAN have a disc bulge, but this alone does not necessarily tell you much on its own – disc bulges can be, and are, commonly present when many asymptomatic people have a scan. Meaning that disc bulges can actually be present without causing any pain or symptoms. Here´s a great infographic that demonstrates the percentage chance of finding a disc bulge on a scan, for different ages, for people with NORMAL backs ie NO symptoms. For example 40% of people in their 30s who were scanned have disc bulges – but no symptoms.
So take home message is that scans are commonly over prescribed, caution should made with any findings and it is important to find a health professional that takes the scans into consideration along with a thorough subjective and physical examination so that focus is put on to factors actually relevant to your pain – many things picked up by scans are often not relevant!
And the good news is that disc bulges have a very good natural progression.

05/04/2019

Loving my large spacious treatment room. Here I have plenty of space to perform thorough client assessments, and treat my clients appropriately with manual therapy, exercise prescription and rehabilitation, movement education...get in touch to organise coming in to have a chat about how I can help you with an old sports injury, ongoing back pain, a niggling recurrent, or new, injury or pain, or just injury prevention 😊

24/03/2019

Is this movement bad for your back?
Can this damage your discs?

No.. 😊
A lot of physiotherapists, doctors, orthopaedic surgeons, and the general public have to change their beliefs about the spine.

People with degenerative discs have been told that they can’t bend their back, lift heavy and do manual work.

There are a lot of examples of people who have gone back to doing the very things they’re being told they can’t do.
There is a lot of fear about the structure of the spine.
They have been told to be careful with their backs and have the fear to do harm.

We know that fear is a huge driver of abnormal pain behaviour.

A shift in beliefs has to happen within the medical, physiotherapy profession and in the general public.

We can trust our back and shouldn't be feared. It is a robust, strong structure.
Often with disabling back pain, the motor systems are overactive, hypersensitive. The muscles are guarding the back too much.
That can be driven by habits of movements, habits of posture, fear, anxiety, stress, or just the presence of pain and you developed a protective guarding response.

In this video prof. Dr. Peter O’Sullivan explains more about this problem and tells about his Cognitive Functional Therapy approach, which shows great results for patients with chronic low back pain:

https://youtu.be/ySJ5O2NnnuE

This is a video from a list on the Trust me, I'm a "Physiotherapist" Youtube channel.
Check out the other video's of Peter O'Sullivan and the other lists, filled with great content! 😊

Share this post with all your collegues, doctors, and other health care professionals.. Everybody should see this! 😊👍