Sometimes, there is no crazy diagnosis when it comes to your lower back pain. There doesn't need to be a herniated disc, or an entrapped nerve. Heck, there doesn't need to be a bone out of place or even osteoarthritis. Sometimes, good ole lower back pain is just a result of too much load the muscles, ligaments, and tendons of the lumbar spine. If you're lucky, you may just have adhesion that's built up in your lower back that needs to be removed.
Adhesion in your lower back will present itself as a deep, achy, tightness, throughout your lumbar spine. In the areas where your adhesion has accumulated, it may get sharper and achier. You may even feel a difference in your tissue, noting that there are some bumps, or trigger points, in your lower back.
Adhesion is a result of one, or a combination, of three things:
In most cases, patients that come into my office suffer from overuse from sitting down too much, or doing too much manual labor.
There are a couple of things you can do at home to help alleviate lower back pain that's secondary to simple adhesion:
It's also helpful to make sure that your hip flexibility is full and healthy. Measure your sciatic nerve with this test and measure your hip with this test.
While at-home work can help this condition, it's best to get your adhesion removed. Using shockwave therapy, we can melt the adhesion down, instantly improving range of motion and restoring function to your joint. Patients with adhesion can get up to 75% relief in 6-8 visits.
At Wildcard Spine and Sport, we specialize in fixing pain that’s lasted longer than six months, even if you’ve seen two or more providers. We are the only practitioners in the five boroughs certified to diagnose and remove adhesion. Click the button below or call the office today at 917-908-0055.