Patients Symptoms: Patients come up with pain in lower back with complaints like pain radiating down towards leg with burning or tingling sensation, pain and stiffness during forward or back ward bending or increase in pain during coughing or sneezing or increased pain during prolonged sitting or standing.
Diagonisis Procedure: Patients are assessed with the clinical examination and other investigations like x-rays or MRI. After the diagnosis treatment is planned according to patients clinical symptoms.
Aim of the treatment for low back pain:
- Reduce pain and inflammation through suitable electrotherapy modalities.
- Reduce radiating pain or nerve tension suitable traction method is used
- specialised manupualtion or mobilization techniques are used to reduce pain and joint stiffness and to regain normal joint range of movement.
- self stretching and strengthening exercises are taught to patients as home remedy .
- self stretching and strengthening exercises are taught to patients as home remedy .
- postural and ergonomical corrections are advised.
Treatment for mechanical low back pain:
- Low Back active range of motion
- Heat/cold therapy
- Electrotherapy modalities
- Low Back isometric /isotonic exercises
- proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation(PNF) techniques
- Low Back Passive mobilisation techniques
- Low Back resistive range of motion exercises
- Meckenzie mobilization techniques
- Low Back stretching /flexibility exercises
- Lumbar traction methods.
- Gait training .
- core strengthening exercises
