Research clearly shows that core stability retraining has short and long-term benefits for low back pain sufferers.

The good news is that we also know that core stability training markedly reduces your chances of re-injury.

Research on lower back pain sufferers has shown us that if you can re-activate your core stability muscles your chance of recurring back pain is dramatically reduced.

In fact, your chances of not experiencing another bout of low back pain (LBP) within twelve months are almost three times better if you have undertaken an ultrasound guided exercise program; 84% vs 30%.

After three years you still have a two in three chance of not experiencing low back pain if you did the exercises. Adding even more research support, if you didn’t do the exercises, you only have a one in four chance of being pain-free. You’re still over twice as likely to not experience another episode of back pain. Hides etal (2001).

PhysioWorks physiotherapists have expert knowledge in the training of core stability muscles. The difficulty has always been how to quantify a patient’s level of stability control. That is, until now.

The solution has been to develop a functional and clinically practical method of assessing your level of core stability and at what level it fails to cope when their individual demands are placed upon their body. That is, what is the individual client’s functional Back Stability Score (BSS)?

How Do We Assess Your Back Stability?

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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