We’ve found that nearly one-third of individuals with persistent lumbar pain have Facet Syndrome. Facet Syndrome is caused by an irritation of your back joints. You will experience pain lateral to the centre of your spine. Your pain can be acute or chronic. Often the pain is described as dull and achy with intermittent sharp pain. This kind of pain reduces when sitting or walking.
Disc pain typically affects 40% of patients with persistent lumbar pain. It presents as pain in the centre of the lower back. The intervertebral disc is the only structure in the centre of the lower back that can cause pain. This type of pain gets worse with sitting, and standing up from a sitting position often aggravates disc pain. Disc pain can affect the nerves, causing sciatica, which is often due to inflammation around a nerve due to disc pathology.
Sacroiliac pain is prevalent in 23% of individuals suffering lower back pain. This type of pain presents as pain on one side of the lower back. It is often worse when walking. The sacroiliac joint is the joint between your lumbar spine and pelvis.
Lumbar spinal stenosis occurs when there is a narrowing of the space in the spinal canal causing pressure on the spinal cord or of the space in the spinal foramen causing pressure on the spinal nerves. This may be a result of bone spurring, disc bulging, ligament thickening, spinal instability, spinal tumours, among other things. Symptoms often include nerve pain (often described as radiating and burning), muscle weakness associated with a foot drop or loss of bowel and bladder control, numbness and tingling due to nerve compression and subsequent deterioration of nerve supply.
Sciatic nerve pain, commonly called sciatica, is a broad term for nerve pain arising from any part of the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve travels from the lower back down the leg to your foot, producing pain, numbness, burning sensation, or weakness symptoms. Learn more about sciatica.
At Five Dock Osteopathic and Chiropractic, we treat both acute and chronic lower back pain. Our approach is to go to the root cause of the problem.
Acute Lower Back Pain Treatment
Many clinics won’t treat acute lower back pain at all, but we treat plenty of it. The key is to improve your mobility when you are in lots of pain. We do this by doing treatment both standing and lying down, as only lying down would aggravate your pain.
Chronic Lower Back Pain Treatment
Chronic lower back pain causes a change in your brain (alteration of the sensory processing of the brain leading to amplification of pain). About 20% of people affected by acute lower back pain develop chronic lower back pain. Five Dock Osteopathic and Chiropractic has found that the key to fixing chronic pain is to retrain your sensorimotor system so it no longer amplifies pain.
Lower Back Pain Treatment Methods
We have a number of special methods for treating all kinds of lower back pain:
About
Five Dock Osteopathic & Chiropractic is located in Canada Bay, in Sydney’s Inner West. Servicing suburbs including Burwood, Croydon, Drummoyne, Five Dock, Haberfield, Concord, Abbotsford, Chiswick, Leichhardt, Wareemba, Russell Lea, Summer Hill, Strathfield.
Clinic hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 7AM – 7PM
Wednesday, Friday 7AM – 5PM
Saturday 7AM – 2PM
Sunday Closed
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