Physiotherapy exercises for lower back pain

10 step protocol to self-treat lower back pain

This is a course for people who want to learn how to self-treat their non-specific lower back pain doing physical therapy exercises.

My name is Mathias Van Den Broeck, I achieved my master’s degree in physical therapy at the Belgian University of Leuven and afterwards I also achieved my master’s degree in osteopathy at Buckinghamshire New University. As a physical therapist I’ve worked with many patients suffering from lower back pain. And exercise therapy is the key to long-term success.

The course is build up in a 10 step protocol going from easy to difficult exercises. The steps build up from mobility exercises combined with basic stability exercises. As the steps progress, the exercises will increase the difficulty in stability and also strength will be added to it.

You can choose your own pace in the rehabilitation protocol. You start with step 1 and then progress to the next step, if only you feel that the step became too easy for you. So if only you don’t get any muscle soreness, articular pain or any other type of discomfort doing the exercises from that step, you can progress to the next step. Some people might get from step 1 to step 10 in 10 weeks, others will progress a little slower and might, for example, take half a year to progress to step 10. For most people the back pain should already be gone when step 8 is reached, they might prefer to stop in an earlier step. This is possible of course, but the actual target is to fulfill step 10 with ease.