Comprehensive rehabilitation (rehab) programs offer a variety of treatments for low back pain. They may use physiotherapy, pain management with medicine and mental skills, and other medical treatments. These programs teach people how to care for their backs and how to prevent reinjury.

There are lots of different types of lower back pain. In particular, in sports one of the most common ones we see is called lumbar facet syndrome. The facet joints are the stabilizing joints on the back of the spine.

But in other sports where people are rotating over repeated – they’re rotating repeatedly or if they are rotated suddenly, again in a contact-type situation, that can also lead to this problem.