Back Injury: Understanding Desensitisation & Why You Should Take Care Of The Sensitisation Of Your Low Back First

When recovering from a low back injury you need to take the appropriate steps in order to recover effectively and build tolerance in the long term. Far too often people rely on passive treatment alone to support their recovery, without understanding that the simple things they’re doing every day are often contributing to the problem!! How can you get better if every day you’re aggravating your back injury? Unfortunately, most people do not understand the impact that simple actions have on their back health and they continue down a path to chronic pain, frustration, and sometimes depression. Understanding the role, you play in your injury will help you overcome your back pain and prevent you suffering over the longer term.

In this second episode of the four-part series we introduce the concept of desensitization and why this is the first step in the recovery process. We discuss how this can be managed, and why you as the patient play a fundamental role in this process! You will learn the difference between nociceptive pain and neuropathic pain and how chronic pain occurs. You will also learn how to ‘tune in’ to your back health so you can analyze the actions you take throughout the day to identify the things that are aggravating your back pain so you can start to find ways to avoid them.

Some of the things you’ll discover…

• What is neuropathic pain versus nociceptive pain
• Why focusing on desensitization is an important first step to recovery
• How patients often continue to stimulate neuropathic pain, preventing recovery
• How becoming aware of the pain triggers, and taking an active role in recovery, is so important
• Why you need to record the pain triggers that you are experiencing so you can find strategies to avoid them
• The importance of thoughtful movement!

Highlights

How taking ownership of your rehabilitation and understanding that you play an important role in your own recovery is non negotiable. Not only will this help you to get better but in the longer term it will help you avoid chronic injury, help you build strength and help improve your overall health. You don’t want to focus on simply freeing yourself from pain but you want to focus on building strength, endurance, and better back health so you can confidently do the things you love without question!

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If you’re suffering from back pain, want to improve your posture, or want to build resilience to future injury then you’re in the right place. Join us and take an active approach to better back health.

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