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Back Pain

Reports suggest that anywhere between 60-80% of people in the UK suffer some sort of back pain episode in their lives with a 50% chance of reoccurrence. Most of the time the reason for the back pain isn’t clear. Common factors that might result in symptoms range from a simple soft tissue strain, poor posture, to lack of exercise, stress and even not enough sleep.

Back pain can be an acute sudden onset, or chronic over a number of years. Both respond well to physiotherapy. Pilates has also been shown to bring significant long-term improvements in reducing the incidence of re-occurrence and managing chronic symptoms.

Although back pain can be severe and cause a lot of anxiety, it is often simple to treat especially if addressed early.

Sciatica

Sciatica is pain referring into one or both legs and can occur with or without accompanying back pain. It can also occur with pins and needles and numbness and a lack of power. You can have all or just one of these symptoms. Early treatment is key to successfully resolving the injury, which is caused by the nerve being compromised.

Your physiotherapist will be able to identify where the issue is with the nerve and treat it. If necessary your physiotherapist can also organise an MRI.

Back Pain

  • "After many years of chronic back pain and a variety of specialists, I was referred to Lucinda and within 6 sessions I was amazed at the reduction in my symptoms and the increase in my movement."

    Liz G

  • "Lucinda has seen me through a multitude of injuries over the years and kept me running competitively despite these, including a PB half marathon shortly after a significant tendon injury."

    Matt B

  • "Lucinda has consistently demonstrated her in depth knowledge and treatment skills in managing my neck pain following a long-term whiplash injury and each time quickly rectifies any difficulties in a few sessions."

    Adam P

  • "Lucinda’s physiotherapy background helps immensely with her approach to Pilates and she is able to work through injuries and enable me to exercise when I was too worried to."

    Mike S

  • "Fantastic service with high level of knowledge and expertise demonstrated throughout, would highly recommend Lucinda."

    Annabel E

  • "Lucinda consistently addresses a variety of injuries I pick up and enables me to keep competing despite all of these."

    Henry T (GB power lifter)

  • "Lucinda was recommended to me following major surgery for a knee ligament injury. She was able to get me back to my pre-injury level of semi professional rugby, which at the time seemed unlikely."

    Paul W

  • "Thank you Lucinda for teaching me some simple yet very effective back exercises which have kept me pain free for over a year now, they have made a tremendous difference to my quality of life."

    Linda M