The Birmingham Back Pain Clinic

Your session at the Clinic

Conditions treated

A wide range of conditions are treated here at the Birmingham Back Pain Clinic, including lower back pain, upper back pain, neck pain, sciatica, whiplash, shoulder pain, knee pain, and sports injuries.

It is a frustrating fact that the majority of painful problems in the population begin for no obvious reason. In contrast, the minority are due to specific events, such as sporting injuries. Many people will have symptoms that recur from time to time while others may just experience a one-off episode. Once present, however, many of these problems are aggravated by long working hours or poor posture. With a decade of successful clinical practice at the Clinic that has included the management and treatment of people from a variety of backgrounds, from professional athletes to sedentary workers, you can rest assured that your problem will be dealt with with care, knowledge and experience.

Assessment

On your first visit to the Birmingham Back Pain Clinic you will undergo a thorough assessment, prior to any treatment. This will involve you being asked several questions about the problem that you currently have as well as your general medical history. You may then be asked to perform a series of simple movements and tasks to see if any of these are painful or restricted. This assessment is important for gaining an understanding of the nature of the problem and so that factors contributing to the pain can be identified. It is also important for ruling out serious health problems before any treatment commences.

Your practitioner will usually have to visually assess and palpate (feel) the area that is painful. It is therefore common for you to have to remove some items of clothing during your session. However, we do understand that many patients often feel more comfortable just wearing accessible clothing, such as a pair of shorts, loose tracksuit bottoms, or vest-tops (for female patients). This is absolutely fine with us - if you are comfortable, then the session is a much more pleasant experience for you.

Treatment

Once the assessment is complete, your problem will be explained to you. You will then be given a recommendation as to the treatment that is most likely to help you. The treatment that we offer is based on an approach that includes highly-skilled and accurate manipulation of pain generating joints and pain modulating interventions such as neuromuscular soft tissue techniques and acupuncture, all of which are used with the aim of providing rapid pain relief. Before any treatment is given, exactly what is entailed and how each treatment works will be explained to you so that you have an informed choice of whether you want to receive the treatment. Even though we will always recommend what should work best, the final choice is down to you, the patient.

Returning patients to full activity following an episode of pain is a priority of patient management. Therefore, all patients are at the Clinic are given advice and, where necessary, exercises aimed at restoring physical health and to reduce the likelihood of re-occurrence.