Back Pain & Sciatica

Chances are, you’ve had some sort of experience with back pain. Research shows that 75-80% of people will experience back pain at some point in their lives. This is why we love helping people with mid and low back pain! 

Oftentimes, people have had imaging that shows changes in the discs or joints of the spine. This usually brings up a lot of fear about “making the damage worse” or how things could progress and leave you in the same strugglesome situation you see your parents endure.

Research shows that imaging has a very poor correlation with how you feel physically. Thousands of people with no pain have the same kinds of imaging findings you may have received.

What is the underlying issue then?

The underlying issues are MOVEMENT and INFLAMMATION problems!

It is important to note that these things cannot be identified on an image or fixed with surgery.

What works for back pain and sciatica? Improving your mobility, increasing overall health of your tissues, building muscle strength, and moving better.

We have witnessed people overcome months, years, and decades of back pain and sciatica- to each person’s amazement. Regardless of any imaging results or family history, there is ALWAYS something you can do to get your back feeling and moving better. We see it every single day.

A less commonly discussed factor with back pain, though one just as debilitating as the pain itself, is the fear of movement that comes with chronic back pain. We will help you work through this fear so that you can confidently get back to the activities you love. For life.

Trauma informed.
Resilience focused.
Hope infused care.

Our Philosophy

At Empower Physio and Wellness, we value trauma informed, resilience focused, hope infused care.

We are trauma informed because people almost always have at least a small trauma experience connected to their current limitation. Trauma is as simple as being in pain or being unable to do something you value. We consider these past traumas, big and small, and how they are currently affecting your life.

We are resilience focused because physical and mental resilience are so important for thriving through life. We guide you in maximizing physical and mental strength so you are equipped with the tools you need to handle future challenges life throws at you.

We are hope infused because hope is sorely lacking in the current health space. We are positive and honest with you about your current limitations and infuse hope in what your future life can look like. The sky is the limit for what you can achieve.

Above all, we are focused on YOU. You get your physical therapist’s full attention because we love getting to know you super well! Our focus is to give you what you need at each session, always thinking outside the box.

Let us bring joy and peace back to your life. With our expert guidance, you can get back to the life you love faster and with more ease than if you tried to figure it all out yourself. 

We got you. Let us take the guesswork and shopping around out of the equation so you can get back to doing the things you love with the people you love most.

Our process at Empower Physio and Wellness

  • Calm

    Let’s be honest, you’re here on our website because you want to get out of pain. That’s why calming pain is our first step. Once we have a very clear picture of what the problem is, we implement simple and effective strategies to start bringing your pain levels down right away. We don’t believe that you have to do 15 exercises every day for three months in order to start seeing results. Most of our clients start feeling better after the first one or two visits.

  • Retrain

    Most aches, pains, and injuries come about because of movement compensations over time. That’s why it is important to re-train and optimize the way your body moves. We also focus on re-training your brain and nervous system to better process stress and optimize recovery so that you build overall resilience.

  • Empower

    Once you are feeling and moving better, it’s time to get you strong! Stronger people are harder to kill (literally…studies show strong people have a 25% less likelihood of premature death). Current research emphasizes the importance of muscle strength, so in this phase we are locking in all the great work we did in the first two phases with building muscle strength. And we don’t mean 2-lb curls. We prescribe robust, total-body strength in a way that is super accessible to you.

  • Empower PLUS

    At this point, you are feeling awesome! We see it all the time that our clients want to do things they never thought they could do- go on an adventure vacation, play on the ground and run around with their grandkids, do a 5k race or even a half marathon, be active and present in the moment (instead of analyzing if they’ll pay for it the next day)…the options are endless. We are here to support you throughout life, help you continue to feel great, and offer body tune-ups–bodies need regular attention just like cars do. Whatever you need, we got you.