Physiotherapy for Back Pain and More

It’s estimated that a staggering 30% of adults in the UK suffer from back pain every year. As those of you who have experienced it will know, back pain can be debilitating and frustrating, preventing you from leading a comfortable and fulfilled life and causing fatigue and long term debilitating issues.

Our team of expert physiotherapists at Kennington Osteopaths & Physiotherapy use an evidence-based approach to take into consideration all the body systems and help you live pain free. We will walk you through the causes of your pain and how physiotherapy can be used to counter these conditions, successfully addressing your symptoms.

Physiotherapy addresses a whole variety of different musculoskeletal conditions and not only back pain. From sport injuries to post-surgery rehabilitation and peripheral joints treatment your physiotherapist at Kennington Osteopaths & Physiotherapy will look after your recovery in a supportive and dedicated manner, appropriately grading your return to an optimal performance and to physical activity.

How physiotherapy approaches body dysfunction

The best way to approach any kind of pain is by taking a holistic view that considers the many elements that can cause or feed into the body’s dysfunction.

At Kennington Osteopaths & Physiotherapy, the first step in the physiotherapy journey is to gather information about the patient: their lifestyle, habits, level of physical activity, medical history, diet and many other small details all contribute to building a clear picture of the factors that can affect the body structures.

After this, the severity, location and nature of the pain is explored, and clinical physiotherapy testing used to reach a diagnosis and suggest the best course of action going forward.

How physiotherapy is used to cure pain

The techniques used in physiotherapy are many and varied: our therapists employ manipulation to increase spinal mobility, mobilisation to improve joint flexibility, and massage and stretching to increase range of movement in the joints as well as their elasticity. We use weights, therabands and bodyweight are all used to strengthen and stabilise your body to prepare it for the strains of everyday life, as well as for rigorous exercise.

Proper posture is key for relieving pain, and physiotherapy includes teaching you how to sit and move in a way that is balanced and in accordance with your body’s natural equilibrium. Advice and education of our patients play an important role for the cure of acute symptoms as well as prevention of future re-occurrences.

The treatment will usually last for a number of sessions, depending on the nature and severity of the pain, and include the teaching of exercises to perform at home to reinforce the work done in-session.

For physiotherapy tailored to your specific needs, contact Kennington Osteopaths & Physiotherapy. Their award-winning team of therapists have helped hundreds of patients recover from the debilitating discomfort of musculoskeletal pain, allowing them to live a full and pain-free life.

Offering physiotherapy and postural re-education packages to address post-surgery conditions and posture-related issues, Kennington Osteopaths & Physiotherapy can turn your discomfort and restriction into freedom and stability.