will suffer back pain that interferes with our day-to-day and, at any one time, about 20 per cent of Australians are suffering chronically. Experts agree that chronic pain is treatable, but what treatment is the best?Traditionally, treatment and pain education have focused on the biomechanics of pain - on what is happening physically that might be causing it - and on the physical therapies and movement patterns that can help.
“Over 50 per cent of patients who suffer chronic back pain are also diagnosed with depression,” Ferreira says.use heavy medication and opioidsFor physiotherapist turned researcher Emma Ho, prescribing exercise alone fell short of treating the problem. “My question, as a therapist, was what to incorporate into my treatment or what to recommend to patients as adjunct therapies?”
In the systematic review, they analysed 97 randomised controlled trials involving 13,136 participants and 17 different treatment approaches. These approaches, when compared with physiotherapy care alone were as much as 20 per cent more effective 12 months after treatment.