Low back pain is now the leading cause of disability worldwide and the number of people experiencing it is forecast to keep rising.
However, there is a move to change the way we treat and manage sore backs: rather than expensive therapies or medication, it is all about empowering us to help our body heal itself.
Christchurch physiotherapist Antony Bush is the author of The Back Fix: How to Beat the World’s #1 Disability. He thinks there are two reasons we have seen such an explosion in the number of sufferers. One he identifies is better access to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
“If someone
