Diagnosing back pain

There is a lot more to back pain than pulled muscles. Back pain is the fastest growing disability in the western world, affecting 1.8 million Australians, and incidence are only expected to rise. Appreciating the complexities of diagnosis can help you help your doctor and set you on the road to recovery sooner.

New Ways To Use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Pain

To turn the tide on the economic and personal repercussions of chronic back pain, researchers are looking at novel ways to deliver treatment – cognitive behavioural therapy delivered online or by phone. In millions of cases worldwide chronic pain persists for  months, years, or even a lifetime and sufferers are willing to give something new a shot.

Sound therapy: does it really work for back pain?

A new practice of sound therapy is conservative in a medical sense, but radically shakes up our perceptions of healing and the role we can all take in someone’s recovery from a back injury. The therapy uses words and sounds to engage with a person’s thoughts and emotions to promote pain relief and healing of lower back pain.

Sound therapy is non-invasive. It is effective because it treats t…

How To Use The Backpod

BackPod by BodyStance is a New Zealand physiotherapy innovation specifically designed for home treatment and ongoing care of the commonest upper spinal problem in the world – a hunched upper back driving neck pain and headache. View more here – https://www.badbacks.com.au/backpod-by-bodystance

How Fashion Could Be Causing You Back Pain

The fact that high heels cause back pain is an old story but it seems like many more of our favourite wardrobe staples are equally guilty. A March 2017 study from the British Chiropractic Association accuses skinny jeans, winter coats with oversized, fluffy hoods, large, heavy bags and backless shoes of committing crimes against spine alignment.