Many people with low back pain rely on “common sense” and assume that rest is the best solution when their back hurts. As clinicians, we hear this every day.
But we know the spine is designed to move. It is built to bend, lift, tolerate load, and adapt to a wide range of movement demands. Limiting movement may feel protective in the short term, but it doesn’t align with how the spine functions—or recovers.
The evidence is clear: staying active and using exercise can reduce low back pain and lower the risk of future episodes (Alzahrani 2019; Marley et al. 2014).
The real challenge isn’t whether to use exercise—it’s how to use it well.
- When should you prioritise strengthening or targeted trunk exercises?
- When is hip or adjacent-region strengthening more appropriate?
- How do you decide between resistance training, stretching, aerobic exercise, walking, or movement and proprioceptive training?
With so many options available, selecting the right exercise for the patient in front of you can feel surprisingly difficult.
Trying to integrate the evidence, your clinical experience, and patient preferences—while still delivering confident, individualised care—can be overwhelming.
In this video and the next presentations in this module, we bridge the gap between evidence and practice. You’ll learn:
- "Why": How exercise modulates low back pain.
- "When": Identifying clinical features that signal whether a patient needs targeted low back exercises, hip strengthening, or general aerobic activity.
- "How": Streamlining your clinical reasoning to replace "overwhelming choice" with "confident prescription."
Dive into this presentation now and start delivering outstanding, evidence-based results with your low back pain patients.
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