Back Pain Specialist in Edmonton

• ✦Muscle strain and guarding
• ✦Joint or arthritis-related pain
• ✦Disc-related back or leg pain
• ✦Sciatica and other nerve irritation
• ✦Pain after an assessed injury
• ✦Work, lifting or activity-related flare-ups
• ✦Pain made worse by long sitting or one position
• ✦Persistent pain with more than one cause

Lower back pain is the most common reason people book a back assessment. It can come from strained muscles, stiff joints, a disc or an irritated nerve, and often more than one at a time.

Sciatica is pain that travels from the lower back or buttock down the leg, sometimes with tingling or numbness. It usually means a nerve root is irritated. The exam checks strength, feeling and reflexes in the legs to see which nerve is involved and how much.

Care for lower back pain and sciatica often starts with staying active within safe limits and guided rehab. Physiotherapy and chiropractic care are both available at Solis, and the physician can add medicine review or a nerve-directed procedure when the exam supports it.

The physician asks when the pain began, where it travels, what positions change it, how it affects sleep and function, and what treatment you have tried. The exam may check movement, strength, sensation, reflexes and signs that point to a muscle, joint, disc or nerve pattern.

An X-ray or MRI is not needed for every case. Testing is most useful when the result could change treatment, when symptoms are not following the expected course, or when the history and exam show a concern that needs more investigation.

The plan may include staying active within safe limits, guided rehab, work or lifting changes, medicine review, massage or myofascial care, trigger point injections, a nerve-directed procedure, or referral for another opinion. Surgery is not the first step for most back pain, but urgent or surgical referral is sometimes the right step.

Acute pain and long-term pain may need different pacing. The plan should name what is being tried, what change to watch for, and when to review it. If a treatment is not helping, the answer is to reassess, not repeat it without a reason.

Go to an emergency department for new trouble controlling or emptying your bladder or bowels, numbness around the genitals or buttocks, new severe weakness in both legs, or back pain after major trauma. These can be signs of a serious nerve or spine problem.

Seek prompt medical advice for fever, unexplained weight loss, a history of cancer, pain that is quickly worsening, or pain with new numbness or weakness. A routine clinic booking is not a substitute for emergency care.

A new strain often needs time, sensible movement and a gradual return to usual activity. Pain that lasts or keeps returning deserves a review of the diagnosis, daily demands, sleep, strength and the treatments already tried. Duration alone does not identify the cause.

Prevention is usually practical rather than perfect: vary long-held positions, build activity gradually, use lifting strategies that fit the task and keep up the movement plan that helped. A flare is a reason to adjust and reassess, not proof that every activity is harmful.