My Back Recovery: Recovering from Chronic Low Back Pain

Auteur(s): Valentin Rosegger - Researcher Physiotherapist Trainer
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  • In every episode we share valuable insights from systematic research and clinical guidelines, as well as advice from experts dedicated to helping people recover from chronic low back pain. My Back Recovery promotes evidence based treatment options, safe training and expert strategies to help you make smart decisions about your rehabilitation process.
    Valentin Rosegger
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  • 11. Talk with Darcy Coss from Back2Basketball

    11. Talk with Darcy Coss from Back2Basketball
    Feb 18 2021

    Darcy Coss interviewed me for his really cool podcast “Back2Basketball”. Having an amazing rehabilitation journey by himself we had a nice talk about:

    • the biggest thing people get wrong about their backpain (11:55)
    • the importance of movement (24:36)
    • the importance of posture (28:10)
    • how to change your sitting behaviour (30:27)
    • mindfulness (42:21)
    • first steps to start your rehabilitation and feeling better (48:26)

     

    Please check out Back2Basketball:

    Instagram: @back2basketball

    Podcast: https://linktr.ee/back2basketball
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    1 h et 2 min
  • 10. Getting an MRI-Scan or X-Ray for Your Back Pain? – Listen to This First!

    10. Getting an MRI-Scan or X-Ray for Your Back Pain? – Listen to This First!
    Apr 7 2019
    - What you should know about MRI and Xray when you have low back pain - Most of typical imaging (making an mri, ct or xray) findings of people with LBP are part of normal aging and are not related to back pain. Using these images to explain your pain without an accurate examination and a carefully guided clinical history interview, is not supported by current scientific evidence!  Clinical guidelines say imaging should be avoided unless signs that raise suspicion for a serious underlying condition like malignancy, spinal fracture, infection of the spine, or cauda equina syndrome are present.1,2,3,4  These signs are usually called 'red flags'. And only a very small percentage of LBP categorises for this group of severe pathology, usually around 1% -> Most people do not show such signs. Are you having serious disease? (red flags) A potential serious disease is identified by your medical doctor while taking a focused history and looking/listening for so called "red flags". "Red flags are features from the patient’s clinical history and physical examination which are thought to be associated with a higher risk of serious pathology."5 There is no definite list of red flags, but the most commonly used are2: aged over 50 years oldhistory of cancersteroid use Other commonly suggested “red flags” in clinical practice guidelines are5,2: faecal incontinenceurinary retentionwidespread neurologic symptoms (could be a palsy, marked weakness of muscles, decreased sensation (feeling numb on your skin), something seriously wrong with your reflexes and your medical doctor will know how to look for that)no improvement in symptoms after one monthunexplained weight lossfeverbeing systematically unwell Whilst the use of red flags is recommended by all clinical guidelines there is still little empirical data for its diagnostic accuracy.5,6 If a combination of red flags raises the suspicion of your clinician he or she should assess prognostic factors such as X-rays and blood tests or magnetic resonance imaging to rule out or identify serious disease (malignancy, spinal fracture, infection of the spine, cauda equina syndrome). The so often mentioned slipped disc by itself is not considered a severe pathology! So why is imaging of your spine not recomended in the absence of red flags? To put it simple: People with no LBP can have worse mri´s, ct`s or xray´s  than people with LBP.  Most of typical imaging findings of people with LBP (such as disk degeneration, disk signal loss, disk height loss, disk protrusion, and facet arthropathy) are part of normal aging and are also present in 90% of individuals 60 years of age or older without even having LBP. Also more than 50% of people without any LBP between 30-39 years of age have disk degeneration, height loss, or bulging in their imaging findings.7   Furthermore no association was identified between findings like spondylolysis, isthmic spondylolisthesis, or degenerative spondylolisthesis, and the the occurrence of LBP.8 No association between lumbar spine facet joint osteoarthritis, identified by multi-detector CT, at any spinal level and LBP.9 Findings on mri are also not predictive of the development or duration of low-back pain.10 Individuals with the longest duration of LBP did not have the greatest degree of anatomical abnormality.11 A recent systematic review concluded that in the acute setting of sciatica (pain radiating down the leg), evidence for the diagnostic accuracy of MRI is not conclusive.12   Let´s put in an example: If you randomly choose 100 people above 30 years of age that do not have LBP and feel perfectly fine, more than 50 of them will show the typical signs of degeneration that are often (mis)used to explain the cause of LBP. The same stands true for people with LBP. They too have a good chance to show those signs, but it is just a normal picture, your skin too does not look like the skin of a 10 year old. It´s in most cases a normal part of aging and has no corelation with pain. So getting an xray, ct or mri not only will not help you (if you lack signs of serious pathology) in treating your back pain but there are even studies that suggest that having an MRI can make things worse for people with LBP. In a study done with 3264 workers compensation cases, people with MRI came off of disability 200% slower than those who didn´t have an MRI scan.13 What really should make one think is that 80-100% of the MRI group had surgery while the no-MRI group had a surgery rate of less than 10%, still having a much faster recovery. Another study brings further evidence for worse outcomes of people with LBP that have early MRI´s regardless of radiculopathy (back and/or leg pain with muscle weakness. On average, the rate of going off disability for those who received an early MRI was approximately one-third the rate of those who did not receive MRI. "hThis evidence reinforces that both providers and patients should be made aware that when early MRI is ...
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    16 min
  • 09. Stress Management as a Top Priority in Your Rehabilitation Process

    09. Stress Management as a Top Priority in Your Rehabilitation Process
    Sep 4 2017
    Through relaxation you can break the vicious circle of pain and stress. This podcast takes you through some easy to learn methods of relaxation, helping it to become part of your daily life and improving your wellbeing. It also lists the benefits of meditation and looks at the supporting scientific evidence, examining why relaxation should be an integral component in your recovery.   Relaxation Relaxation is an integral component of cognitive behavioral treatment programs for chronic pain.1 Taking care of stress and anxiety as a chronic pain patient is crucial for your recovery.   Meditation   Meditation is also a great way to built relaxation into your daily life. There are many different ways of practicing meditation and you have to find what works best for you.   Many people enrich their lives through practicing meditation. When you read interviews with successful CEO´s, entrepreneurs or celebrities who have incorporated meditation routines in their lives it is astonishing to see the huge benefits they experience.   Personal benefits of people who meditate regularly: more happiness having more energy having more creativity living more efficiently a better understanding of ones own emotions more sensitivity to the feelings and emotions of others more control over ones own emotions less pressured by your experiences less stressed feeling more relaxed more calming thoughts control over your sensory filtering improved memory and executive function increased ability to concentrate increased emotional intelligence   Thinking about relaxation, mindfulness and awareness during our recovery can’t be done without looking at some important evidence and thoughts about meditational practices: Mindfulness meditation programs improve anxiety, depression and pain over the course of 2–6 months. The effects are comparable with those you can expect after taking antidepressants for the same period of time, but without the associated toxicities.2 47 placebo-controlled trials all found small to moderate improvements in pain, anxiety and depression. What is really great about this review (Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being from 2013) is that it demonstrates that the meditation group attained better results compared to the control group undertaking an equally intense treatment regarding focus and time, such as lectures, talks and art therapy sessions. If we consider this evidence, then it seems a good reason to check out mindfulness for yourself and see if meditation could be something for you to try.     A definition of mindfulness Mindfulness has been described as a “non-elaborative, non-judgmental awareness” of present moment experience.3 Maybe you have heard of Zen, it´s very closely related to the mindfulness approach. In general mindfulness techniques can be divided into two styles: focused attention "Focused attention is associated with maintaining focus on a specific object, often the changing sensation or flow of the breath or an external object. When attention drifts from the object of focus to a distracting sensory, cognitive or emotional event, the practitioner is taught to acknowledge the event and to disengage from it by gently returning the attention back to the object of meditation".3 open monitoring "By contrast, open monitoring is associated with a non-directed acknowledgement of any sensory, emotional or cognitive event that arises in the mind. Zen meditation is considered to be one form of open monitoring practice. While practicing open monitoring, the practitioner experiences the current sensory or cognitive ‘event’ without evaluation, interpretation, or preference".3   Many guided meditation programs consist of a mix of those two styles. Often changing from one to the other within a meditation session. I also think that it’s really important to know that clinical research into mindfulness has been going on since the early 1980s. For me this means that there is a good scientific evidence for using meditation techniques detached from religious beliefs or dogma for health purposes.   How to start There is plenty of good content on the Internet available for free, simply search for mindful meditation. Check out some talks about meditation on TED.com and be inspired, or check out www.mindful.org Here are some great resources: Free guided meditations from UCLA: Each week has a different theme, and usually includes some introductory comments, a guided meditation, some silent practice time, and closing comments. Presented by the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=107 http://marc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=22   UCSD Center for Mindfulness: Guided audio files for practicing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) from the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. http://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/mindfulness/programs/mbsr/Pages/audio.aspx   Basic meditation with Tara Brach Free meditations that you can stream or download. https:...
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    9 min
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