Sitting in your office chair for long periods. Walking your dog. Roughhousing with your grandchildren. Back pain and sciatica can make all these common activities much less enjoyable.
Think you’re alone in needing help with back pain? Well, that’s just not true. It’s estimated that at any given time, about 31 million Americans are suffering from lower back pain. Physical therapists can help you find effective treatment for chronic back pain and sciatica. Whether you have a degenerative disc or a strained muscle that’s pinching a nerve, a therapy specialist can help treat your condition. In addition, the treatment plan that your physical therapist builds for you can have multiple benefits.
Benefits of physical therapy for back pain and sciatica treatment
Degenerative disc disease is one of the most common back disorders that adults experience. It develops when a disc in the spine wears down due to constant compression, age or stress on the spine. When this happens, the disc may move out of alignment and cause a pinched sciatic nerve. This pinched nerve can then be responsible for the back pain and other symptoms you feel.
Physical therapy can help reduce the symptoms of sciatica that are caused by degenerative disc disease. A therapy specialist can build an individualized back pain and sciatica treatment program intended to offer you many benefits. A few of the benefits that you could get include:
- Improving your core and lumbar muscle strength
- Reducing your levels of pain
- Allowing you to perform daily tasks with greater effectiveness
How can physical therapists treat back pain and sciatica?
The goal of physical therapy-based back pain and sciatica treatment is to help you get back to an active lifestyle. Living with chronic back and sciatica pain often means living a limited life. With guided physical therapy and evidence-based techniques, your physical therapist can help reduce your chronic pain.
Some of the therapy techniques that your physical therapist may use are:
- Aquatic therapy
- Functional dry needling
- Manual therapy
- Spinal stabilization
- Virtual therapy
- At-home care
Find help with back pain and sciatica at Border Therapy Services
Wondering where you can find effective help for your back pain and sciatica? Our Border Therapy Services team is primed to help you find the help you need. We offer free screenings that can reveal the underlying issue causing your pain. Additionally, our therapy specialists excel at constructing personalized therapy plans designed to reduce your pain.
Don’t have time to come to one of our clinics for an in-person appointment? No problem! Our team can save you the drive time thanks to our virtual therapy and at-home care services. Even better, we can save you from having to go to your doctor for a referral since we don’t require that you have one.
Contact us today for more information about how we can help you with back pain and sciatica or to schedule your free screening.