This is a great question and can go many different ways depending on who you talk to.
Personally, for me, the advice given by medical professionals is dated and lacks any genuine personal experience.
It’s unrealistic for anyone giving you low back pain advice to have gone through it themselves, but we expect the best when we seek out the medical model for guidance.
In my experience and with thousands of others, I have spoken with, their advice never seems to pan out.
The medical model leans too heavily on generic blanket advice.
Maybe it’s to save their own butts, but back pain is complex and requires time, energy, and education to beat, they simply don’t have any of it to give you.
So what do you do?
First, you stop doing the things that aren’t working, even if that means abandoning the stretches, core exercises, or self-adjustment strategies your Chiro or doctor gave you.
Then you seek out a reliable source of advice that combines movement, exercise, and pain science to find lasting pain relief.
This may require a little digging, a lot of emails, and investing your own hard-earned money, but it can be done!