New clinical care standard for low back pain — a story of hope
The new Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard aims to make sure patients with this common condition get the best outcomes.
Joe’s story — from tragedy... Joe, a 35-year-old emergency services worker, first experienced back pain when lifting a hose over a fence. His doctor referred him for an MRI. That’s where things ‘went downhill’ for him. The words in the report scared him. His doctor said ‘it's not a bad back for a 60-year-old’. That seeded the idea he was ageing before his time. He started to protect his back by avo...