Back Pain And Sciatica
Get back to normal naturally with a plan built around your movement, strength, and goals.
Understanding Your Back and Leg Symptoms
A careful examination helps identify the factors affecting how you move.
Back problems can create pain, tingling, burning, numbness, or symptoms into the leg. Lumbar spinal stenosis, for example, is a narrowing of the vertebral canal that can occur with age-related degenerative changes. People with stenosis may notice back pain after standing still or walking short distances that improves with sitting. At Performance Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine, a physical therapist examines you to help rule out other causes and identify mobility, strength, and movement-control issues that may be contributing to your symptoms.
What Physical Therapy Can Address
Your treatment is tailored to the limitations found during your evaluation.
Mobility and Flexibility
For low back pain associated with spinal stenosis, treatment may include stretching and manual therapy to improve flexibility in the low back and hips.
Strength and Control
Weak abdominal muscles and poor control can affect the low back. Progressive exercise can improve abdominal strength and the control needed for daily movement.
Posture Habits
Slouching can create muscle imbalance and stress on the discs, joints, and nerves in the neck and back. We help you build practical posture habits for work, school, driving, and everyday life.
A Conservative, Movement-Focused Approach
Good physical therapy looks beyond a scan and addresses why your back is not moving well.
Research discussed by our practice has found physical therapy to be as effective as decompression surgery for low back pain caused by lumbar spinal stenosis. Imaging can show normal age-related changes that may not be the source of pain. Our focus is on a thorough clinical examination and a treatment plan that addresses flexibility, posture, movement, muscle coordination, and strength—so you can move with more confidence.
Learn More About Back Pain and Sciatica
Watch our recorded Back Pain & Sciatica workshop, then let us help you take the next step.
Performance Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine offers a recorded Zoom Back Pain & Sciatica Workshop. Our team serves Colchester, Hebron, and surrounding Eastern Connecticut communities, helping people get back to normal naturally.