Remedial Massage on Central Coast for lower back pain

If you have lower back pain – a professional Remedial Massage can provide substantial pain relief and healing.

Because an experienced Remedial Massage therapist targets the correct muscles that are the source of your pain or injury.

For example, lower back strain is a common cause of lower back pain. Our skilled remedial massage therapists are able to provide manual treatment that naturally relieves pain. It also assists with healing of your lower back.

What causes lower back pain?

There are two major lower back muscles that play an important role is stabalising and supporting your lower back and hips. These muscles can start to function incorrectly due to strain or fatigue through everyday activities. OR sometimes due to a certain action you perform. For example, these activities can commonly cause back strain:

  • Lifting that requires leaning over something, for example, getting groceries out of your car

  • Leaning over a sink while doing dishes

  • Sitting slumped in a chair (particularly for long periods of time – like at the computer for work)

  • Running on uneven pavement

What are the symptoms of lower back pain?

The common symptoms you may start to feel if you have dis-functional lower back muscles are increased stiffness in your lower back and/or decreased mobility and pain.

This pain may be felt as a sharp, stabbing, urgent pain in your low back. This would indicate that you have a tight lower back muscle/s. Sometimes you may feel a dull constant ache with some degree of stiffness. Your lower back muscles may also develop painful trigger point nodules due to entrapment of nerves within its fibres. Sometimes it’s because of direct trauma that is causing your lower back pain.

How can Remedial Massage help with your lower back pain?

Our Remedial Massage Therapists understand how to apply the right manual therapy to these lower back muscles including stretching the muscle and massaging it. You must be careful that you get a massage by a professional Remedial Massage Therapist because the wrong technique for the cause of your pain may cause more damage!

For example, in the instance of nerve entrapment, if the pressure of the massage is too heavy it may aggravate the nerves causing you more pain. It requires remedial massage knowledge and skill to gently reduce tension and release compression in such lower back pain scenarios where nerves are compressed.

The quadratus lumborum muscle (one of the two lower back muscles) extends throughout your lower back and consists of several layers. This muscle is an extensor of the spine, allowing you to bend backward. The muscle also helps you bend your torso sideways.

The biomechanics of your hip and spine are interconnected; if you have a problem in your hip muscles, it can cause pain in your lower back.

The second lower back muscle is called: gluteus medius muscle. It can become painful due to imbalance and/or weakness. There are several causes such as:

  • Repetitive trauma to the muscle from running on soft surfaces

  • Overuse of exercise equipment that requires hip abduction

  • Sudden, strenuous physical activity

  • Previous injury to the muscle

  • Blunt trauma from hitting

Gluteus medius muscle pain mainly affects your lower back and the buttocks also. The pain may also be referred into the back of your thigh. An experienced Remedial Massage Therapist will know how to treat the Gluteus medius muscle. This muscle arises from the top of the pelvic bone and attaches to the outer side of the thigh bone.

In cases of lower back pain caused by muscle dis-function of your two lower back muscles, it means that both muscles are affected because they are interconnected. Therefore your hips also need to be addressed during remedial massage treatment to relieve your lower back pain.

Call Central Coast Remedial Massage Therapy to book an appointment with our professional Remedial Massage Therapists if you are experiencing lower back pain.