Briana’s Battle with Lower Back Pain

Briana experienced the onset of her lower back pain in mid July last year. This progressively got worse and after 2-3 weeks of discomfort her pain spiraled out of control. She was vulnerable due to extreme pain and persistent cramps rushed down her leg.

She described her agony as “LEG being LIT on FIRE”

“I’ve never had pain like this in my entire life and I am a mature woman”, Briana said. She further adds “I am a strong, confident person and I can never go back to the doctor prescribed terrible drugs, which are very bad and completely unhelpful.”

She was unable to stand or sit and therefore only laying flat on her back was helpful. Her aches kept her up during the nights. Briana soon realized her condition was getting severe as her immobility made her feel shackled to the bed.

Briana is brave, independent and things never phased her, yet she said “I’ve never been so afraid in my life. It never occurred to me how a physical challenge could have such a weight on my personal life. I was unable to help myself. It took everything out of me.”

Briana looked for a Spine Surgeon and filled out forms to go through with it. She suddenly felt hesitant about the surgery and possibilities of complications, which made her give herself another fighting chance attempting Physiotherapy.

At her lowest, she met Andra. As she started visiting Eglinton Physiotherapy, there were noticeable improvements.

Andra helped her to engage her core and bring her pelvis health back. She used hands on techniques, lots of guidance regarding movement and nerve tension management. Modalities were used such as Lower-Level Laser Therapy and Shockwave to reduce inflammation along with prescribed stage-by-stage exercises to help her recruit and engage different parts of her body at a time. This helped to reduce various types of tightness, numbness, and soreness. She benefitted from improved gait and mobility and gained tremendous functionality from restored SCIATIC NERVE problems.

Now, Briana is “enjoying the CORE EXERCIES 1-2 times a day and even increased to 20 reps per day.” She can go on long walks and shovel snow again. She can bend down to even pet her cat. Shout out to Briana’s big accomplishments for being able to “DO IT ALL!”

Andra helped regain Briana her life by mentoring her through the strategies on how to engage CORE correctly and improving her confidence over time.