Relieve Low Back Pain | Reduce Low Back Pain | Canada's Leading Authority in Human Movement | Dev Chengkalath

…To remove the cause of the pain.

I’m not just talking about quick fixes or dealing with symptoms. I’m not talking about looking for the source of the pain. I’m not talking about figuring out what tissues hurt. I’m talking about finding what’s truly causing you the pain.

That, however, is one of the hardest things to do, if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

In most cases of low back pain, there is no one defining incident, there is no one injury, or no one single devastating event that can be pinpointed as the root of that shooting back pain, those tight knotted back muscles and those crippling back spasms.

In fact, your low back pain is usually the end result of years of neglect and abuse of your poor spine!

Now if you do know what you’re looking for, things get a little less complicated (although, nothing related to low back pain ever gets easy!).

Low Back Pain or Fire on the Spine?

As a high performance physical therapist in Toronto, Canada, I see quite a few bad backs. I see low back pain of every type and description. I see low back pain that’s been around for 30 years. I see low back pain that’s been around for a few days. I see that low-grade, nagging type of low back pain that comes and goes. I also have people limp, crawl and stumble in to the clinic in incredible pain, unable to function or perform their most simple daily tasks.

These backs are typically attached to a few different types of people, from executives to stay at home moms, to athletes to weekend warriors.

No one is immune.

According the the research, approximately 4 out of 5 people in North American will suffer from low back pain at some point in their life. Of that 4, many will have recurring episodes. Many more believe they have to live with the pain, suffering and dysfunction.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

The following is my list of the top 5 causes of low back pain. These aren’t based on scientific findings or research papers, but on observations from my physical therapy practice and my own personal clinical experiences.

These are the ones that you can fix. Simple, yes. Easy, no.

1. Poor Posture
2. Muscle Related Issues
3. Mobility Issues
4. Bad Movement Patterns
5. Deconditioning

For now, I’m going to give you some homework.  I want you to see if you can come up with your own thoughts as to what could be the problems, in each area, that could lead to low back pain.

Yours in freedom from low back pain.