Back Pain: Should You Be Moving More and Getting Treated Less?
If you've ever been told to rest, get a massage, or wait for your back pain to settle, this episode might change the way you think about recovery.
Back pain affects almost all of us at some point.
In this episode of The Activate Edge Podcast, we unpack a 2025 meta-analysis involving 2,768 participants with chronic low back pain that compared active treatment, passive treatment, and a combination of both.
The findings were surprising: active treatment produced better outcomes for pain and disability than passive treatment alone or even a combination of the two.
We discuss:
• What active and passive treatments actually are
• Why exercise and movement appear to be so effective
• Whether massage, manual therapy and taping still have a role
• The limitations of pain and disability scales
• How we assess and manage back pain in clinical practice
• Why back pain is often more complex than scans and structures
Most importantly, we explore what these findings mean for everyday people living with back pain and how to build a recovery plan that works for you.
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