Back Pain Evidence and General Musculoskeletal Care Recommendations

Back Pain + Back pain is just one of the many conditions that we treat at the clinic, however it is one of the leading causes recurring of pain and functional disability. Here we are looking at evidence based practice through the lens of back…
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Back Pain Management : Treatment Key Points

Back Pain: The Summary of Recommendations for treatment from the most up to date Clinical Practice Guidelines. This document provides a simplification of why we do certain treatments for Low Back Pain. It compares the power of the evidence…

Back Pain : What to do for Acute Pain?

This paper is fresh off the press and highlights the intersection of pharmaceutical management alongside the the treatments that we provide for Acute pain. It's often so hard to know what to do and this paper gives large scale research to help…
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Back Pain: Big Picture Insights

Back Pain : Big Picture Insights Back pain is a leading cause of disability. It is also a costly challenge for our health care system, particularly at this fragile time. Fortunately, research continues be refined and solutions are at our fingertips. Please…
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Low Back Pain Guidelines for Patients

Back Pain : Perspectives for patients One of the biggest challenges that clinicians face is to make treatment practical. There is overwhelming evidence that activity when there is back pain is most often helpful to reduce symptoms and expedite…
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Back Pain Clinical Practice Guidelines

Back Pain: The full report If you are like us, you likely want to know the reasons behind the decision making process. Transparency is always key in this type of process. This publication on lower back pain is the most recent research (End…
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Advice to athletes with Back Pain: Get active!

"Prolonged inactivity for an athlete with LBP can increase their injury risk, which ultimately results in further inactivity and potentially more pain. While ‘keep active’ might seem an odd recommendation for athletes with LBP, emphasising…

Back Pain for Athletes… and Workers

Did you know? Back pain affects everyone! 3 Up to 9 in every 10 Olympic athletes experience LBP in their lifetime; at any 1 time, up to 2 in every 3 athletes might be experiencing LBP.   Low back pain (LBP) is common in the general and…
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Back to Balance with Laura Graham

Back to Balance with Laura Graham   This brand new one-on-one balance program now being offered through Saanich Physiotherapy at our Elk Lake location is specifically geared towards our senior clients that wish to maintain or further…
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Breaking the cycle of chronic pain

Breaking the cycle of chronic pain. What is chronic pain? Upto one in five Canadian adults suffer from chronic pain. It also affects one in five people globally and is the primary reason people seek medical treatment. In most cases,…