These malalignments, driven by our normal anatomical makeup and dominance due to normal activities of daily living, create compensations in the lumbar area resulting in arthritic changes, disc degeneration, bone spurs, disc herniation’s, and increased compression on nerves.  This can lead to lower extremity radiating symptoms and the need for surgical interventions.  Through specific therapeutic ex and manual techniques, our therapists inhibit overactive muscles and strengthen muscles that have shut off or weakened returning the body to a neutral pelvic alignment.  Pelvic neutrality allows the normal gluteal muscle stabilization and core muscles to provide a better abdominal brace, minimizes muscle tone and compressive forces placed on the lumbar area, promotes healing, and a return to normal function decreasing the need for surgical interventions.  Once pelvic neutrality is reached, education is an important component to maintain pelvic neutrality with daily activities providing for a much more effective long term solution, decreasing the risk of recurrent back pain.

It can be a result of injury, illness or sudden onset for no known reason. 

With the right integrative medicine team, this pain can be better managed and allow patients to live a healthier life style and do more things and be more active.   Physical Therapy is one key component to this team.

Specific restorative therapies provide the best treatment possible in this chronic environment.   The evaluation is essential to treating such issues, as this determines the treatment approach and what specific exercises would address the restrictions and limitations present in this chronic state.  The combination of modalities such as IFC electrical stimulation, heat and/or ice, ultrasonic therapy and specific soft tissue mobility such as Graston and manual functional releases allow the patient to recover the best possible tissue function and release adhesions that are promoting the postural restrictions and limitations.  Through specific postural, mobility and functional stability programs, the client will be able to restore the most neutral alignment possible to minimize torsional patterns and minimize limited tissue motion.  Patients moving with pain are much better off than those that cannot move well, as the pain will only get worse for those individuals not moving and other secondary complications will arise as a result of inactivity. It can be a challenge and the therapist will help you to develop your program specific to your needs and then assist you to recover your functional ability through ex and stretching. 

Contact the Husker Rehab team of professionals for specific postural evaluation and develop a plan of care to address the postural restrictions promoting your pain and allow us to be a part of your integrative team to best address your chronic situation.

In addition to the obvious fractures, ligament sprains and muscle strains there can be subtle injuries that come about from every day activity.  Each day the feet undergo immense stress as we perform normal activity.  Less obvious conditions can come about that over time can be compounded and lead to pain and limited function.  Our therapists are trained to diagnose not only the obvious conditions leading to pain but also those that are less obvious.   Conditions including plantar fasciitis, tarsal tunnel syndrome, Morton’s neuroma, hammer toe and Achilles tendonitis are just a few conditions that can be treated with physical therapy.  Treatment of these conditions should not be delayed as they may lead to further issues such as ankle, knee, hip and back pain.