The Back Pain Podcast

Nick is a Sport Chiropractor who has worked in the premiership for the last 3 years alongside a multidisciplinary team of physios, doctors and coaches.  We discuss how common injuries including back pain is in top-level athletes and how its managed in the elite sporting environment. As well as the challenges healthcare professionals face in dealing with the best of the best.    KEY TAKEAWAYS 49% o...

Sarah Fellows is a chartered musculoskeletal and women's health Physiotherapist. She works alongside Rob at the Dyer St Clinic @dyerstclinic dyerstclinic.com in Cirencester.  Today’s episode focuses on one of Sarah’s passions, treating pregnant ladies, who as I’m sure you know, regularly suffer from back pain. We cover how to know if you back pain is serious, and the signs to look out for. What yo...

Dr. Depak Ravindran is a Consultant Pain and MSK Specialist at Circle Rehabilitation. He is also lead consultant in pain medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. One of his key areas of interest is Fibromyalgia. A Chronic pain condition which not only causes a significant amount of back pain but also makes the pain from other conditions much worse! We talk today about the widespread pr...

Rath Sundaram is a Consultant Orthopaedic, Trauma and Spinal Surgeon at Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust and is the spinal lead for Gloucestershire Hospitals. As well as working in the NHS he has a large Private patient base. The elective work he provides is mainly for sciatica, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis, cervical radiculopathy and myelopathy. All which are significan...

Axial Spondyloarthritis or AxSpA is an inflammatory arthritis where back pain is the main symptom. AxSpA is an umbrella term that includes AS or Ankylosing Spondylitis as well as Non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis. Both can be crippling! We chat to Jack March, a Specialist Rheumatology Physio about his role in practice as an Advanced Level Physio at Nuffield health, alongside that he is also...

John Thompson is a physiotherapist and lead instructor for the McKenzie institutes in Europe.  This episode is dedicated to the McKenzie method for treating and solving lower back pain.  The McKenzie Method® of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy® (MDT) - MDT is a philosophy of active patient involvement and education which is trusted and used by practitioners and patients all over the world for back...