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Exercise Therapy for Low Back Pain:
When assessing appropriate exercises and rehab we have some specific focuses during our clinical assessment:
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Your goals: are you needing to complete a big hike or a marathon? Are you a surfer in Shoreham looking to head to Bali or a golfer in Cape Schank needing to get back on the course. Regardless - your goal is our goal.
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What your physical activity levels already are - if you are in the gym 5 days per week, rehab may focus on mobility and recovery. If you are not very active, then we might be focusing on strengthening.
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Your range of motion of the spine as well as hips and movements which can provoke the pain (such as flexion or extension)
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Your abdominal muscle strength and control - whether assessing any underlying weakness
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Hip stability and control - whether there is weakness/ instability or loss of mobility
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Your load tolerance - meaning how much exercise can your body manage before pain or fatigue
We also have a number of patient we co-manage with their Trainers, Exercise Physiologist or Pilates instructors. If you have a good support network already, then we may simply give you and your team some information on what we observed so that may become a focus of your sessions.