Do you or someone you care about experience muscle pain or stiffness? Myotherapy may be the treatment you are looking for! Today we’ll go through some of the best Myotherapist recommended ways to resolve pain in the lower back area.

Myotherapy is a wonderful modality where practitioners help with alleviating all sorts of pain, restriction, tightness, discomfort, and many other sensations. Myotherapists differ from other practitioners, such as Physiotherapists and Osteopaths, by focusing more on muscular-related tension and pain, and treating those muscles accordingly.

Myotherapists, on a regular basis, treat several areas of pain, especially in the lower back.

Here are 3 ways a Myotherapist can help alleviate lower back pain:

1. Treatment

During treatment with a Myotherapist, the practitioner will assess where the pain is, note the history of how your pain initially presented, and work out the most efficient and best possible treatment plan.

Treatment techniques that have worked extremely well include:

• Deep Tissue Massage

• Dry Needling, Cupping

• Taping.

During the treatment, the practitioner will create the perfect overall treatment plan to resolve your problems!

2: Postural awareness

Everyone can admit to themselves that their posture could do with some improvement. Poor posture can lead to many different parts of the body experiencing pain and tightness. The lower back is a common spot to flare up or spasm.

Improving your overall posture, whilst standing, sitting, walking, working, etc, will absolutely help decrease the chances of lower back pain occurring, and also decrease the intensity of the pain experienced.

This all just shows how important focusing on postural awareness is.

3: Home care (Stretches, other recommendations)

Outside of the treatment room, consistently completing home care advice will further improve any lower back discomfort, along with starting to prevent any pain from getting worse.

Myotherapists will generally recommend different home care advice, ranging from applying heat, completing stretches (see video for examples), doing strengthening exercises, and using spikey balls or foam rollers.

If you are having any doubts or would like to speak to a myotherapist about your specific issue, you can book a FREE 15min video call with one of our Myotherapists.

Looking forward to seeing you!

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