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Musculo-skeletal back pain
Back pain and headaches are the most common disorder to our population. Back injury occurs in sport, in car accidents resulting in whiplash injuries. A fall can cause a back injury and this type of injury can even occur form getting out of bed. When our back has recovered from the injury through physiotherapy treatment and help there is no reason why any area of the back is 100% better. The person should be able to lead an active life without pain.
The onset of back pain can be quick or the onset can be very slow. You may know how it has happened or when it happened. Or there may be no idea for the reason for the onset of back pain. It has to be realised we use the spine all the time.
Back Posture
It is important to maintain the correct back posture in different positions, this is known as neck lordosis and back lordosis. When maintaining any of these positions remember to keep your back hollow to reduce unnecessary aches and strains.
Sitting
Reclining
Bending
Lifting
Kneeling
We are a nation of drivers and we all have different working environments.
- Sitting at the computer
- At home and at work
- Factory work
- Working in a supermarket
- Teachers and teaching assistants
- Printers
- Fork lift drivers
You know your own working need of the back and how it can be harmed.
A testimonial
Hello Ann
At last. Sorry it has taken me so long.
Re My Back Complaint
Just a few lines to let you know that it is now some 9 months since the MBST Therapy treatment on my back and I am pleased to say that I am still virtually pain free (just the odd twinge).
As you know I had back pain for some two and a half years prior to having a course of MBST Therapy. I had had various tests treatments and tablets including acupuncture and visits to chiropractors plus various other forms of physio. X rays, scans and specialist visits - all to no avail.
So to now be pain free is such a blessing and relief I have a life back. Thank you.
I would be only be too pleased to recommend the treatment to others.
Hope you and the family are all well and looking forward to the warmer weather. I am catching up at the moment in the garden such a lot to do at this time of year.
S.R.
Ann Clare is very experienced at treating back disorders. Ann started her experience taking the “back classes” in the rehabilitation gym of the local district hospital 28 years ago.
The vertebral column can be affected by many differing conditions. The success of the treatment will depend to a large extent on the accurate diagnosis and the ability to localise the level to which lesions lie.
Disc problems are the major cause of back trouble and back pain. On a lighter note stiffness in areas of the vertebral column such as facet joints can give back pain tenderness and limitation of activity.
Hello, my name is Karen, I am forty six years of age and I was in a car accident in 1981 at the age of seventeen. The accident resulted in me damaging my L1 lumber disc, which is located in my back. All of my life I have suffered severe back pain and have been in immense agony for a long time. However within the last six years from the age of 40, the pain became increasingly worse and found it difficult to cope with the pain on my own anymore.
Since the age of forty, when the pain became much worse, I decided I should do something about it and attempted to get help. I knew I could not continue living my life in such discomfort, my back pain was beginning to take over my life and I could not cope with the pain on my own anymore.
Initially my first point of call was to visit my GP and ask her for pain killers to try and take some of the pain away, at least to make living with the pain a bit more bearable. However, after such a short space of time the painkillers were not touching my pain in the slightest and I needed something else.
Next I was offered the chance to receive steroid injections in my back, exactly where the pain was, in the hope this would help me a great deal. At first these injections worked wonderfully and I was pain free for a minimum of six weeks. However, the problems began to arise when I was informed I could only receive the injections twice a year due to them being so powerful and the steroid making my bones crumble if given too much. With me only being forty years of age at the time continuing with the injections would have proved to be worthless as they would have just caused more damage in the long run.
Subsequently I then had to hope there was another form of pain relief I could be given because I could still not live with the pain I was experiencing. I was then referred to a pain management clinic at Edith Caval Hospital and they began suggesting and trying ways of helping me overcome this pain.
Firstly they suggested a TENS machine which is a machine that gives out little pulses of electrical energy in the hope that the electrical pulses prevent pain signals from reaching your brain. This unfortunately did not work and was nowhere near strong enough to cure my pain.
The final straw came when my whole life was being affected. I could no longer go shopping alone due to being unable to push the trolley. I could not pick up my grandchildren or look after them alone. I began having difficulty doing everyday things such as dressing the lower parts of me, getting in and out of the bath and so on. This became a complete nightmare and I began to lose my whole quality of life.
Due to the severity the pain was having on my life the pain management clinic suggested I try Fentanyl which is a morphine based painkiller in the form of a patch. They started me on 25mg patches of this drug, which again, did not work even begin to touch my pain.
They then increased my dose to 50mg patches and then again up to 75mg patches. It was only when I reached the 75mgs that I began to cope and notice a difference, a relief in pain.
Tragically I found myself in another road traffic accident in May this year (2009) and I had to have physiotherapy for the whiplash I experienced. This is thankfully how I met Ann Clare.
Ann treated me for my whiplash within six appointments. Within these appointments Ann appreciatively informed me about MBST (Magnetic Resonance Therapy), something I had never previously heard of anywhere. Ann educated me on the individuals she had treated with MBST and the positive outcomes of all of them.
Over the course of my six treatments for whiplash I had already made up my mind and was head strong that MBST was something I had to try for myself. I felt I had nothing more to lose, I had always lived my life in pain for twenty nine years. So if it didn't work it wouldn't be any different for me.
I began my first treatment at the end of September 2009. When I revisited Ann on the second day I could not believe, I was in such disbelief that I was already significantly pain free already. After just one session of treatment, I could not believe it and never thought I would.
I had my ninth and last treatment at the end of September and I have been pain free ever since! Before MBST I never had any quality of life, I could not do anything without experiencing such severe pain.
I am now such a happier individual. People I know who I am seeing when I am out and about are commenting on how much different I look. I now look happier than ever and they say I have my sparkle back. I have been able to go digging down my husbands allotment and even had a race with my five year old granddaughter. Two of many things I didn't think I would ever be able to do.
There are no words I could choose, no words that could ever thank Ann enough for informing me about MBST. This treatment has given me back my life. My husband, my children and others have seen such a huge change in me. I am a completely different person. I have now been able to come off of all the pain killers I have ever been on, even the morphine based patches. I am now not on anything, no one can believe it, not even my GP, I came off my last patch and told my GP I was completely pain free. The funny thing of it all is that I was politely told I was going to be in a wheelchair by the age o fifty. I was even contemplating buying myself a mobility scooter. Who's laughing now?
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