Have you tried other back pain treatments without success?  The problem could be that they focussed on where you feel the pain and not on the origin of your low back pain.  Our clinical massage treatment works by finding the source of your pain and releasing it. 

 

If you suffer from low back pain, you're not alone.  Around 8 in 10 of us will have one or more bouts of low back pain, and it's most common in people between 35 and 55 years of age.  It's also the largest cause of work-related absence in the UK. 

The pain may range from mild to severe, and if you are one of the 8 in 10 you'll know all too well the impact it can have on your life. 

 

Your low back is the area between the bottom of your ribs and the the top of your legs.  Low back pain may also travel down your legs, sometimes reaching to your feet, a pain pattern that is commonly referred to as sciatica.  The most common cause of non-specific low back pain is a sprain (overstretching) of the muscles and/or ligaments.  Sciatica-type  pain may be caused by overtight muscles clamping down on the sciatic nerve but it can also be due to pain trigger points that have developed in your muscles.

 

 

Non-specific low back pain, i.e where no underlying disease can be found, is more likely to occur if you:

 

 

The result of any of these is to create pain trigger points within the muscle fibres. What happens then is that these send pain to a different part of your body.  Where other treatments may fail is that they focus on where you are feeling the pain rather than on the origin of the pain.  So, to relieve your low back pain the first step I need to do is to identify these pain trigger points. And, where this clinical massage treatment also differs from others, is that you play a crucial role in assisting me to locate these points. In this way I can work effectively to release the muscle fibres that are the source of your low back pain. 

 

Your treatment also includes advanced stretching techniques that help to re-educate your muscles, to help prevent them from returning back into their pain-causing shape.  We'll also take a look at what activities may be contributing towards your low back pain, so that you can start to see what changes in behaviour you may need to make.  

 

This clinical massage treatment is based on 1 to 6 treatments received at weekly intervals.  The first assessment and treatment appointment is 90 minutes, with follow-up appointments being 60 minutes.  The number of treatments that you'll need will depend on the severity and length of time that you've had low back pain.  Long term chronic pain will require more treatments.