One sided lower back pain

If you have one sided lower back pain, just above the hip bone, next to the spine - read on.

I treat this type of lower back pain frequently in my practice. These clients have typically tried massages, acupuncture and chiropractor, specific lower back strengthening exercises or simply rested hoping it will go away. Unfortunately, it never does. 

Why and what is the cause? 

There are various causes to such lower back pain, but it’s usually due to an impact, a direct trauma to that area. For example, I’ve seen clients who have had this type of lower back pain from skiing or car accidents, even from falls, few have had it from giving birth.  Unless you are treating it holistically (meaning the practitioner is looking at the whole body, not just where it hurts) it will keep coming back. 
This is because the body is amazing at compensating after an injury and trauma if it is left untreated. It has to in order to keep us moving. Once the nervous system has figured out a new way of moving with the lower back pain, you are putting stress, pressure somewhere else in the body, which will lead to other problems later down the line. (I treat those type of clients too.)  More importantly, if this compensatory pattern is left untreated and only the lower back pain is being treated it will never go away completely. Since the compensatory pattern is interlinking with the lower back pain. Does this make sense? 
Where you are going to compensate depends on how you are using your body, where the weakest link in it is and what other niggles, past untreated injuries you already have.

As I said at the beginning it really can be fixed once and for all! J My treatment approach is holistic. I look at body alignment, check for compensation patterns and treat all affected areas. I will recommend specific strengthening exercises and or stretches for lower back pain. If appropriate I look into lifestyle and diet choices and will advise on them. 

So if you are tired of chasing your tail and would like to be pain free let me help you! 

You can find out more about how I work, what issues I treat, my qualifications and read client’s testimonials at: www.spinalmatters.com
I look forward to helping you!


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