Primitive Therapy
22691 Lambert St #520
Lake Forest, CA, 92630
949-310-4276(phone)
888-391-4236 (fax)
info@primitivetherapy.com
22691 Lambert St #520
Lake Forest, CA, 92630
949-310-4276(phone)
888-391-4236 (fax)
info@primitivetherapy.com
How Can We Help?
Neck Pain
Shoulder Pain
Elbow Pain
Low Back Pain
Hip/Pelvic Pain
Knee Pain
Foot and Ankle Pain
Neck Pain
Shoulder Pain
Elbow Pain
Low Back Pain
Hip/Pelvic Pain
Knee Pain
Foot and Ankle Pain
The Low Back Pain Solution
Learn how to solve your pain by following simple exercises. These exercises are design for people who want to self-manage their pain from home and for those who are currently getting treatment and want to get better and longer lasting results.
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The Low Back Pain Solution
Whether you have degenerative disc disease, a herniated disc, lumbar stenosis, radiculitis, a lumbar strain or sprain, or just plain old low back pain, the answer to your problem is the same. All of these problems are just symptoms of one underlying cause: poor movement patterns. Almost without exception people become too stiff in their hips and mid-back (thoracic spine) and must then move too much in their lower back. The lower back is meant to be stable, but when the hips and mid-back are stiff, the lower back must move too much. This puts undue stress on the discs, ligaments, muscles, joints and nerves of the lower back and injury to at least one of these structures is the result. If your discs get injured, you end up with a herniated disc or degenerative disc disease. If your ligaments or muscles get injured, you end up with a sprain or strain. If your joints get injured, you end up with arthritis, stenosis, or degenerative joint disease. And if your nerves get injured, you end up with radiculitis. Your low back pain is your unique way of saying you are too tight in your hips and upper back.
Treating the Root Cause of Your Symptoms
The treatment for your symptoms will vary depending on the actual pain you are experiencing. But the treatment for the cause of your symptoms will be the same for each of these dysfunctions: learn how to move better. We use a combination of Functional Manual Therapy, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), therapeutic exercises, and Functional Cryotherapy to treat your low back pain. Specifically, the lower back itself usually has a number of joint motion losses that will be treated directly with hands-on techniques and then reeducated through various movement patterns and exercises. Injury to the lower back is often combined with dysfunctions of the sacro-iliac joint causing a pelvic obliquity, scoliosis, dysfunctions of the coccyx, and often requires visceral manipulation.
"Core" Stability
Everyone knows the importance of having a strong 'core' to help stabilize the lower back, but few people have any idea how to actually achieve stability. Our techniques to enhance posture and movement make achieving stability much easier. Specifically, PNF can facilitate the stability of your lower back like no other technique available. And our techniques to facilitate the function of the deep, 'core,' muscles are decades ahead of the popular trends of today.
Kettlebell Training
We also make use of kettlebell training (when our patients are ready for it), which offers intense exercises that teach you how to move properly and engage your stabilizing muscles while simultaneously delivering a strength and aerobic conditioning benefit.
You Must Be Actively Involved
The only way you will ever get better is if you are actively involved in your treatment. Although our magic hands can change your body, improve your movement, and reduce your pain, you are the only one who can learn to move better, change the way you treat your body, and keep up with your exercises. We are very successful and get excellent results for our patients, but that is only because our patients know they are more than 50% responsible for their recovery. We are not into failure, and neither should you be!
