Low back pain
Low back pain brings more people through our door than anything else. It rarely has a single cause. We start with an assessment to understand your particular back, then build care from physiotherapy, massage therapy, or acupuncture as the findings suggest, one plan at a time.
How it tends to show up
- A deep ache that arrives by evening and negotiates with you in the morning
- A sharp catch when you lift, twist, or stand from the truck
- Stiffness that has quietly rearranged how you tie your shoes
- A back you have started to distrust, which changes how you move everything else
How we approach it
Assessment first: movement, load tolerance, and what your back is guarding against. Then graded exercise and hands-on work with a plan you can hold onto.
Focused work on the muscle groups doing overtime, often alongside a physiotherapy plan rather than instead of one.
Some people find acupuncture a useful part of their plan, particularly when sleep and stress are tangled into the picture.
The first 48 hours
If your back has just seized: keep moving gently within what it allows. Full bed rest tends to make the second day worse, and so does testing it every twenty minutes. Short, easy walks, positions of relative comfort, and patience with the fear are all reasonable first moves.
Numbness in the groin, changes to bladder or bowel control, or weakness spreading down a leg need emergency care the same day. Go there first, and book with us afterwards.
Often related
A plan beats a search spiral.
Book a first visit and leave with an honest read on what is going on, on paper and in everyday words.
Rather talk it through first? (250) 555-0147