10/07/2025
If your doctor’s first line of advice for chronic back pain is painkillers and a printout, you’re not broken — the system is.
In the UK, GPs are trained in a generalist model — not a body-by-body, root-cause, long-term correction model.
They’re taught to manage symptoms, not transform the system (your body, your habits, your daily movement patterns).
🧾 The system looks like this:
– 7-minute consult
– Zero physical assessment
– A leaflet, a prescription, or a referral
– Maybe a scan… if you’re lucky
– 💣 And when that doesn’t work? Surgery.
📊 THE FACTS:
– Only 1 in 10 people benefit from back surgery long-term
– The NHS reports that success rates for spinal surgery vary massively, with many patients left with the same or worse pain
– Chronic back pain is rarely a spinal issue alone.
It’s a muscle issue, a lifestyle issue, a stress issue, a movement pattern issue
But the system isn’t set up to address that. You are handed a Band-Aid approach and expected to get on with it.
🇬🇧 The UK Mentality:
We’re culturally wired to skip the work and fast-track the fix.
We’ll take pills and book surgery quicker than we’ll:
– Walk daily
– Train consistently
– Reduce alcohol or processed food
– Prioritise stress regulation
– Lose the excess belly & b**b weight pulling on the spine
– Or admit… we haven’t even tried.
🧠 BodyFix Believes:
If the cause is poor strength, posture, fascia dysfunction and lifestyle —
then the solution will never be a 15-minute consult or a scalpel.
It’s going to be:
✅ Education
✅ Resistance training
✅ Fascia + lymph reset (cupping, needling, manual work)
✅ Core rehab
✅ Accountability
✅ TIME.
💬 If you’ve been told your spine is the issue, but your habits scream louder…
DM me.
It’s not too late to do it differently.
But it is your job now.