Episode 353 of The Physical Performance Show is an Expert Edition featuring Dr Kevin Wernli, sharing Lower Back Pain: fear, posture, & movement.
Kevin Wernli recently completed his PhD looking at the relationship between posture, fear, and movement when it comes to lower back pain and chances are, yourself, or someone in your close circle is either going through an episode of back pain or has recently gone through it!
Kevin takes us through the concept of nonconscious non-protection, where people forget about their back and they get back to living.
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“Although most people will experience an episode of debilitating back pain, most people will recover”
“You’re a person experiencing back pain - you are not your back pain”
“All pain is real”
Top 3 messages to someone with back pain
1. Could there be more to pain than what I think is damaged?
2. Learn more about pain
3. Look after your whole health
Top 3 tips for practitioners working with patients with lower back pain
1. Listen
2. Educate with experience
3. Mind your language
“It's more complicated than you think, but learning about pain might just be your ticket out of here” – Best Advice
“choose something you're a little bit frightened of - try and do that in a mindful, normal, calm, relaxed and progressive way” – Physical Challenge
Instagram: @kwernliphysio
Twitter: @KWernliPhysio
Website: @kevinwernli
Linkedin: @Kevin Wernli
From Protection to Non-Protection (Mixed Methods)
Does Movement Change When Low Back Pain Changes? A Systematic Review
Systematic literature review of imaging features of spinal degeneration in asymptomatic populations
Back to basics: 10 facts every person should know about back pain
Ten Low Back Pain Facts – VIDEOs (most shared resource with patients)
00:00 Start
02:35 Contributing factors to the downward trend of lower back pain
07:35 Kevin’s research on back pain
11:40 Defining the differences in pain (causes & effect)
20:55 Kevin’s PhD - The ‘Why’ behind the ‘What‘
25:50 The journey from pain and protection to non-protection and just living
43:35 Recommended assessment based protocols for therapists/clinicians etc
51:18 Top 3 messages to someone with back pain
55:15 Top 3 tips for practitioners working with patients with lower back pain
58:17 PhD thesis video
1:05:08 What Kevin would say to an elite athlete with back pain
1:07:36 Best Advice
1:08:15 Physical Challenge
1:14:23 Finish
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