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Tuesday 9am - 6pm Wednesday 12pm - 8pm

http://www.bondosteopathy.com.au/

Bond Osteopathy, 603 Burwood Road, Hawthorn, Melbourne (2025)

02/06/2025

Grateful to do what I love every day - helping people move, feel, and live better 🙌🏻🤍

19/03/2024

Living in an ever-growing society where individuals strive to continually improve can mean that some of us may lose sight of the basics… this is your friendly reminder that sometimes less is more

04/03/2024

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20/02/2024

What are your ins and out?

05/02/2024

❌ No, your back isn’t f*cked!!!

❌ No, you aren’t ‘broken’

‼️And yes, structures of the spine (including the discs) CAN contribute to your pain experience and symptoms!

But...

✅ You should know that you CAN also live completely normally and pain free even WITH disc bulges present in your spine

⁉️ How?

💯 Well, to keep things short, tissue changes, injury, and/or pathology are NOT directly linked to pain

🤯 You can have pain in the presence of injury, but you can also have pain WITHOUT it!

🏃🏻 That’s why people can sprain their ankle in a game and continue to play on it even with multiple torn ligaments, or have multiple bruises on the body and never remember how they even got there (those are just a FEW EXAMPLES)

😫 It’s also why someone pinching you can hurt a lot without causing any actual tissue damage , or why stress or lack of sleep can make your upper back and shoulders ache really bad, or why even the thought of unpleasant memories/experiences can make things hurt worse

😯 And it’s also why this many people (based off of a study of 3110 individuals from 1946 to 2014) can have disc bulges present in their spine but WITHOUT PAIN or dysfunction!

⁉️ The takeaway?

💯 Disc bulges seem to be more highly correlated with NORMAL AGING than with pathology/dysfunction

👨🏻As the authors of this study summarized:

“Imaging findings of spine degeneration are present in high proportions of asymptomatic individuals, increasing with age. Many imaging-based degenerative features are likely part of normal aging and are unassociated with pain. These imaging findings must be interpreted in the context of the patient’s clinical condition.”

✅ So, like I said earlier, having a disc bulge or bulges in your spine does NOT mean you’re doomed to a life of pain and misery

🙌🏼 Disc bulges CAN HEAL, and even if they don’t fully resolve, your pain and symptoms can!

Reference:
📚 Brinjikji et al (2015), Systematic Literature Review of Imaging Features of Spinal Degeneration in Asymptomatic Populations