With this in mind I have started writing several books collating the information from questions and help needed with back pain. I started with several chapters with solutions to help with movements I have found most effective over 14 years of working with people in the clinic.

I always have the treatment goal of targeting the root cause of pain, for example L5, or the iliopsoas and fix the problem to eliminate the pain for a lasting solution.

The most common question I get asked by you is why did I get back pain?

Most people bend their back, not their knees, we have all heard the saying lift with your legs not your back, but few know how. Also people tend to hurt their back in a variety of ways, twisting and bending, picking something off the floor rather than lifting something heavy.

So why do we lift with our back?

Simple ........It's easier! Yes, that's it, you use less calories to bend from your waist to lift something. It's also easier to see what you are picking up and pre a problem you are fine. Habits are also to blame as you learn to do something successfully you keep doing it and long term may cause an injury.

If you watch a toddler pick something up off the floor after they have just learnt to walk and balance, they demonstrate excellent hinging and balance. Their advantage is they never want to be still, have high level of flexibility and do not spend time in a chair for their hip flexors to shorten.

 Hinging is how you use your hip flexors or iliopsoas group and the muscle of focus is the hip flexors, connecting the top of your thigh bone just below the hip joint to your lower back. This muscle is critical as it's the only muscle connecting your lower body to your back!

If you stand with your feet hip distance apart and lower your body down, most people will bend at the waist and only bend their knees a fraction. You should keep your back upright and your knees should bend with only your body moving forward, after you have passed 90 degree bend in your knee, just like a toddler.

Remember, we tend to sit down for long periods of time so our lower body is not able to support our back so our iliopsoas  has to do all the work to keep us upright. Also, in this position of sitting, we have double the compression on our lower back.

Just to make matters worse we all have low sofas and chairs at home to relax in, which cause more compression and offer less support so we slouch, or better still, put our feet up putting more pressure on our back.

This is just one short explanation, for you it could be completely different, linked to work, activity or a fall.

The key thing is the rehabilitation from back pain has a common starting point.

To get everything square and in the best place for you, like a chiropractor when they manipulate you to get your joints and back all in the right place. The reason for many visits to the chiropractor is that your body and muscles like to be in one place.

As we move all the time if we change how we move, stand and walk our muscles and skeleton adapt. This is how physiotherapy helps rehabilitation.

You can now see even just one problem can have multiple solutions, hence all of the noise on the internet about different ways to treat a condition.

This is why I have written lots of pieces to help specific problems, but in my treatment with applied biomechanics, and functional movements I have developed themes to help.

The option to have a 1:1 Treatment and Assessment with me at the Clinic in Stratford upon Avon is below if you feel a face to face solution is more appropriate for your case