| Guest Blog by Trupti Mehta, PT, MS, OCS Back pain impacts approximately 31 million Americans at any given time, and our health care system spends $50 billion per year on low back pain treatment. It’s the single leading cause of disability, keeping people out of work, and it’s the second most common reason for doctor’s visits. Back pain is a big problem in this country. But the even bigger problem, in my opinion, is how the traditional medical system treats and manages those suffering from back pain.  |
| Despite what you may have been told, getting rid of back pain on your own is entirely possible and preventing it can be even easier. But it starts with understanding what the true cause of back pain is for most people. Eighty percent of back pain is “mechanical” in origin, which means it’s not due to any serious pathology like cancer, infection, or fracture. Mechanical back pain is the result of abnormal or unusual forces occurring in the structures of your spine, like your ligaments, muscles, discs, and vertebrae. These abnormal forces can accumulate slowly over your lifetime or happen quickly in a single event, such as picking something up the wrong way. The good news is that if abnormal forces can cause your back pain, then reversing those forces can get rid of your back pain. Surgery and other medical procedures won’t do that. They only impact the structure or irritant that is aggravated, like when you remove a piece of your bulging disc. The goal for true back pain recovery is to eliminate what is causing those structures to be aggravated in the first place – and the best way to do that is with healthy movement you can do on your own! Here are 5 tips to help you minimize abnormal forces on your spine so you can avoid procedures and surgery and get back to being active, working out and doing the things you love!……..READ MORE HERE Give some of these tips a try and let me know if they help you! But if not, consider coming in and talking to a specialist at my clinic… Last week, we announced the addition of Back Pain Strategy Sessions to our schedule. And we are currently offering a very limited number of these strategy sessions CLICK HERE to request a Back Pain Strategy Session from a back pain specialist at my clinic, or email at trupti@mmsspt.com, or CALL (202) 670 8874 for a FREE telephone consultation so we can ask you some questions and help you better. Trupti Mehta PT, MS, OCSManual Medicine, Spine & Sports Physical Therapy, Washington DC  |