This buttock pain is in the gluteal muscles but it’s not the site of the injury despite the fact it’s there that’s causing you pain. Often this is blamed as the piriformis muscle, but the likelihood of this happening is very small. It’s such a small structure and it may well be problematic but it’s likely to not be the main cause. The L4-5 and L5-S1 are the areas that are most commonly injured in the spine.
Degenerative disc disease can be a common diagnosis in the spine, and can be identified under a number of terms such as arthritis, wear and tear, spondylolosis etc. You need to find out as a first port of call where that degeneration is located. Is it covering one area, is it in pockets in the spine? You can only tell these things by seeing them in an X-ray.
We often see people who have repetitive strain in tendons and often people feel the need to poke and prod at their injury after they’ve had treatment. It’s common to want to massage it or to try and almost provoke the pain if it’s been relieved by treatment, but it’s really important to just leave it alone and let the tissue repair itself. We often think massage is harmless and in some cases it is, but if you’re digging down into the area you’re going to create muscle tears.
Sciatica is not really a condition in its own right, it’s a symptom of a further problem. So in order to treat that problem, we need to figure out what’s causing it. The sciatic nerve root originates around L5-S1 in the spine, so we need to look at what’s compressing at that section.
Back pain when or after walking up hill is a very common phenomenon and a sign that the discs in the lower back are likely under increased stress!
Slouching increases the length of your spine in the lumbar canal by around 20%. For extended issues, this can create quite a problem, especially if you slouch throughout the day at work or working from home. Poor posture also causes adaptation in the ligaments, causing them to lengthen and decrease in stability.
It was a very common occurrence that all of a sudden searches for resolving back pain took a spike. If you’re a member of our Back In Shape program, you might have found us as a result of this. Our bodies respond to environmental stresses, which would have been different than you would have experienced going into work everyday.
Bed rest has in the past been recommended for back pain, which is why it’s often deemed an appropriate thing to do. A back injury is an injury, so we want to reduce the amount of load that area is under as well as stop any further injury. Build up of inflammation in the lower back is often the cause of these symptoms occurring.
Regular Sleep Hours: people often look at a quantity of sleep time so they’ll focus on getting 8 hours of sleep during the week, but then go to bed later on the weekends. You might go to sleep later on some nights than others. This can really throw out your circadian rhythm. During lockdown perhaps you managed to go to bed and wake up at the same time everyday.
Cardio is something that often people want to get into. The 5 main ones are walking, cycling, running, rowing and crosstraining on an elliptical machine.
Band-like pain across the lower back is very common and can be particularly troublesome if you have degenerated discs in the lower back. It is ok sometimes to feel pain in this area if you’ve done something out of the ordinary – for example doing some gardening for an extended period of time. Usually this occurs when you’ve just done too much.
Quite often, the exercises we’re talking about today are given during physiotherapy sessions if you go through the NHS route and they’re given for a reason, but they can make your pain worse in the long-run even if they provide a little relief while you’re doing them.
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