Break Free From Recurrent Back Pain: Expert Insights

Sudden back pain is a wake up call. It makes you seek the help you need and allows your chiropractor or physiotherapist to sort things out with appropriate treatment. You get given a personal exercise plan and gradually everything improves. You feel better at last! Then, little by little, you forget to do the exercises and forget the lifestyle adjustments you were advised to adopt. Disaster strikes again and you feel like you’re back to square one. This can be a repeating cycle. When caught up in this painful hamster wheel, patients sometimes ask, ‘What’s the end goal of chiropractic treatment? Does your back ever get completely better? Is there light at the end of the tunnel?’ These are good questions! Here’s what Sundial back experts have to say.

Back pain treatment – the Sundial Plan

We want you to get better! At Sundial, our practitioners always tailor treatment to your problem in order to ensure the highest probability of recovery in the shortest possible time. The first step is your specific plan of care, in which we suggest a certain number of treatments over a certain time. This is tailored to your examination results when your chiropractor or physio tracked down what’s causing your pain. The Sundial Team really want you to participate in your recovery – in fact, you’re the key player. This not only means keeping up with any exercises we’ve advised you to do but also making sure you stick to the treatment plan. If you need to reschedule an appointment, make sure it’s moved to the nearest possible date.

Will my back ever get completely better?

Here at Sundial, the end goal is always to help you lead a pain-free, active life. Whether your back pain ever gets completely better is more complex. The answer depends on what’s causing the problem. Some issues are linked to the natural process of ageing and so are associated with disc degeneration or arthritis; some are work-related, perhaps occurring due to repeated actions or postures. These can cause injuries like micro-tears which become progressively more painful with the passage of time. Professionals like hairdressers or drivers often suffer from these kinds of unavoidable stresses on their backs. So the answer to this question is really, ‘It depends!’. But rest assured, we always do our best to get you back to the best possible shape as quickly as possible.

Back pain recovery for muscles as well as joints

We fully recognise that the stress of chronic pain can affect your muscles as well as your joints. That’s why we aim to offer a range of methods to help you and encourage you to discuss your treatment with your practitioner and explore all the options available. Here at Sundial, across our two sites we offer not just chiropractic and physiotherapy treatments but also Sports Massage and Myofascial Release. Our St James’s Street branch even has a resident personal trainer and a small gym. Our blogs and newsletters are also designed to inform and support you. We want you to feel involved in your care.

So book in for a check up today. We’d love to show you what Sundial can do for you!