Hi Greg.

Bending over a slight amount should not give you back pain later or during. However, if your back, specifically your lower back is not stable, you will get pain just from minor bending. This is because your spinal structure is not stable. This in turn allows abnormal forces to be applied to your disks, facet joints and associated ligaments, tendons and muscle of the spine. These abnormal forces over time will cause degeneration of the spine. This may begin to manifest as the pain you describe, with worsening symptoms, back pain during activities you normally didn’t have pain with before, sciatica, numbness and rupture of the disk itself. These events and progressions can be stopped and the damage allowed to heal with expert chiropractic care and rehabilitation. Adjustments only may not help because you are describing a structure event and not just a subluxation. Of course your treatment will need to be highly specific. This is why I perform a comprehensive exam the details levels of restriction of movement, strength, coordination, endurance, muscle firing patterns, structural detail of the spine and all of the relevant elements. This is the reason that my patients get better faster and stay better. I routinely get patients from other standard chiropractic centers who have experience more back pain or other joint pain. I perform highly specific adjustments, rehabilitation, massage, myofacial release, strengthening, coordination and endurance activities so that my patients get the best possible care. I even perform detailed labs if needed. However, I don’t think that the case you described will require any labs.

Remember that cutting the grass should not trim time off of your day because of pain.

Thanks,
 
Dr Bob
Expert Health and Rehabilitation
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