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When is additional help or physiotherapy suggested for a person with back pain?
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When is additional help or physiotherapy suggested for a person with back pain?

Patients where back pain does not have a serious cause of concern, Dr. Ghaffar advises patients to undergo physiotherapy.

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Once we've excluded what we call red flag symptoms or in cases where these symptoms aren't severe and where we're confident that the cause of the back pain isn't anything serious then it's a case of look how do we manage this and usually it's a combination painkillers and exercises designed to improve your mobility, increase circulation to the muscles and back strengthening exercises. With the help of skilled physiotherapists, you can incorporate these exercises on a day-to-day basis. A lot of the exercises can be found online and there's lots of various YouTube videos that physiotherapists have conducted just to show you how to do these various exercises but what I wouldn't do is diagnose the problem yourself without consulting someone and then embarking on them because sometimes you can do yourself more damage than good. So once you've had the professional consultation and there's lots of various techniques and exercises that we can incorporate.

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