Exclusive: ‘It makes you stronger’: Exercise the best treatment for back pain, not drugs or bed rest | marywardy
People experiencing lower back pain should stay active and address psychological barriers to their recovery, according to new guidelines that dismiss painkillers and bed rest as inadequate and outdated remedies.
In 2021, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ Health of the Nation report found musculoskeletal concerns were the second-most common reason a person visited a GP, after psychological concerns. “For the majority of people with back pain, what you see on a scan is not predictive of their pain,” said Professor Peter O’Sullivan, a musculoskeletal physiotherapist.
‘I thought: what am I going to do when I get old? I couldn’t keep going on with the amount of opioids I was on.’One of the authors of the research, Professor Chris Maher, this year received a $2.8 million federal government Medical Research Future Fund grant to pilot a model of care that better integrates physiotherapy services in emergency departments. The pilot will be run at Sydney’s Canterbury Hospital later this year, with plans to do a larger trial across seven other hospitals.
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