Physiotherapy can help patients with low back pain or neck pain with or without radicular symptoms.
It aims at faster symptomatic relief, and thus leads to less chronic disability.
- Recommend structured exercise programmes tailor-made to the physical condition of patients
- Provide people with advice and information to promote self-management of their low back pain
- Adequate symptomatic relief
- Therapeutic exercises
References/ hyperlinks to:
- European Scientific Journal: Non-specific neck pain and evidence-based practice 2013
- Cochrane Back Review Group: Full guideline of low back pain 2009
- European guidelines for the management of acute non-specific low back pain 2006