Back pain is the most common form of chronic pain. The most effective way to manage chronic back pain is with a multidisciplinary approach, of which exercise is a key component.
“Any single treatment in low back pain is never enough by itself,” says Michael Vagg, a pain medicine physician and dean of the faculty of pain medicine at the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. “But exercise is a fundamental part of recovering from low back pain and managing it if it becomes persistent.”
But people who have suffered from back pain for a long time might feel fearful of