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Missing the Simple

It’s amazing sometimes how simple solutions are the best, and this is no different in the management of back pain.

Last week, Toby spent time...

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To treat or to manage?

Manual therapy has a reputation for being, well, manual. Hands-on. The use of one person's hands (and the occasional elbow) to help another person...

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Repaired or reconditioned?

A common topic when helping people recover from back pain is the difference between repair and condition.

This is particularly relevant when...

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Do you know what you're doing?

A common conception of injuries such as back pain is that there are exercises or stretches that can be done to help stimulate or speed up recovery....

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Is Time a Good Healer?

Time is a big topic in back pain.

  • How long did the pain take to develop?
  • How long did the pain take to go away?
  • Is there a time of day when...
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Patterns in Back Pain

All too often in clinic, Graeme and Toby hear patients arrive with a diagnosis for their low back pain that has been given to them by someone else....

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Where did the idea for BackPain.online come from?

Graeme and Toby have worked as private osteopaths for many years.

At the end of a busy Saturday morning a few years ago, they talked about just how...

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