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Welcome to FixYourOwnBack.com!
Thanks for checking in! Many of you were referred here by your doctor, physical therapist, massage therapist or acupuncturist to help learn a bit about your lumbar disc injury and what you can do to help yourself. Perhaps even more importantly, you need to learn what NOT to do, so that you can keep from hurting yourself.
Others of you have stumbled on this site on a web search, or were perhaps sent here by well meaning friends and family. If that's the case, then you need to know this: This site might not be appropriate for the type of back pain you have!!! This site was designed to help people with the most common cause of moderate to severe back pain--flexion intolerant, disc-related back pain. Below are some common names for this type of back pain:
- Disc herniation
- Disc bulge
- Disc prolapse
- “Slipped” disc
- Pinched nerve
- Sciatica
So if you have ever had diagnosis of any of those conditions, then the information here will probably help you a great deal. A quick 3 minute test designed by Robin McKenzie, PT will help you to find out if FixYouOwnBack.com is a good match for you. To learn how to do the test, just click on the tab above entitled 3 Minute Test (brilliant, right?). Before we go much further though, there's some important information and warning signs you need to be aware of. These so-called Red Flags are below and you need to pay attention to them!
In some cases, this type of back pain can indicate a more serious condition that requires medical attention. This site does not substitute for an assessment by a qualified doctor or physical medicine specialist!
If you are experiencing:
- severe pain,
- pain that doesn't change with body position,
- pain that wakes you from sleep,
- weakness in the legs,
- difficulty with bowel or bladder,
- or numbness in the groin or rectal area then you may be having a medical emergency! See your doctor before beginning any exercises here.
By continuing further on this site, you acknowledge that Solutions Sports and Spine, Inc. and Dr. Phillip Snell will not be held liable for injury sustained with the exercises herein, nor for your failure to seek medical care.
If your back pain typically gets worse when you bend forward or twist then you likely have flexion intolerant back pain. Often, one of the pain generating structures in this type of back pain is the lumbar disc, typically one of the lower two, either L5–S1 or L4–5. While this type of back pain may develop into quite a serious condition over time if untreated, the good news is it is one of the easier types of back pain to treat. Often, some basic education, and specific exercise training will help most people to dramatically decrease the frequency and severity of disc-related back pain episodes that they have. So how do you know if you have this type of back pain? Browse the questions below and see if most of these issues apply to you.
- My back pain is worse in the morning when I wake up.
- My back pain gets worse when I bend forward to put on my shoes.
- My back pain gets worse when I get in and out of my car.
- I have had pain in the back of my leg and/or buttock with previous or current episodes of back pain.
If you answered yes to most of these questions then the information in this site will likely benefit you. To help further identify whether you will benefit from the information in the site, click on the link below and you'll be directed to a video describing a specific type of test you can perform to determine whether information in this site should help your back.
Go To 3 Minute Test
Free Stuff
Still reading? Then here's a bit about the layout of FixYourOwnBack.com. There's a free content area and a membership portion. The free content is mostly on the Free Videos tab above and consists of myth-busting videos and self help videos which most of you will find extremely helpful to quickly get your pain under control. You'll also figure out why certain activities and times of day frequently coincide with your pain.
Affordable Membership Gives You Control Over Your Pain
The membership area is cheap! It's only $9.99 per month, anyone can join, you can quit anytime, and it gives you access to a video tutorial library that typically is reserved only for doctors and other health care professionals to use to help teach their patients how to help themselves. These exercises have been shown in research and in clinical practice to be SAFE and EFFECTIVE for people with lumbar disc injury. You can find out a bit more about the history behind the site development and the players behind the site by clicking on these links. These videos have been organized into a thoughtful, systemized program that will walk members through specific exercise goals. You'll test yourself for your degree of mobility, stability, endurance and strength. You can use a little bit of the system for a short while to just get out of pain, or you can use the higher level exercises to get to higher levels of strength, agility and power in your workout, sport or job. You decide! Here's your suggested path of action:
- Take the 3 Minute Test
- If you have Flexion Intolerant, Disc-Related Back Pain...
- Go Check Out the Videos at Get Started
- If You Want to Learn How to Exercise to Help Your Back Pay a Whopping $9.99 for Membership for your first month, and each month thereafter until you decide to quit
If you don't have flexion intolerant, disc-related back pain, I'm sorry! I haven't created the self help site for that yet! You can try clicking on the "Locating Help Near You" link on the right above, to look for sharp clinicians that have "game" near you. This site was mostly a labor of love because I really do love helping folks feel better with the things I've learned. I'm sorry for your pain, but I really hope that the info here helps you or someone you love to feel better. So pass on the info to others if you think it would help! Be well!
Dr. Phillip Snell
Portland, OR
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