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getback™ treatment uses carefully targeted movement and strengthening exercises to reverse the ‘de-conditioning’ cycle caused by back pain. The treatment includes guided exercise with controlled loading on DAVID medical devices designed by Biomechanists and Exercise Scientists. Every treatment of your individual program is supervised by our Physiotherapists and Exercise Physiologists.
Reversing the de-conditioning cycle triggered by back pain is the foundation of the getback™ program. Back pain makes us avoid moving the painful area, resulting in loss of mobility and weakening the spine’s supporting muscles. Without treatment, the de-conditioning cycle continues and episodes of back pain may occur more frequently.
Treatment focused solely on pain relief doesn’t address any underlying weakness in the spine’s supporting muscles. getback™ promotes overall spinal health by targeting and ‘re-conditioning’ the deep spinal muscles that support and stabilise the spine.
FAQs
Sessions run for around 30 minutes. For the best results, we recommend two sessions per week.
Following your Initial Consultation, a typical program runs for around 6 weeks (roughly 12 sessions), with a full reassessment at the end. Depending on your results and goals, individual programs can range from 12 to 24 sessions in total.
GetBack tends to work particularly well for people with a disability score of 40% or lower on the Oswestry Disability Index or Neck Disability Index. If your pain and disability levels are higher than that, your therapist may recommend other treatment first to bring those levels down before starting on the devices. It's also well suited to people managing other complicating conditions (for example, hip arthritis) that rule out more generic exercise, and to people who feel anxious or fearful about exercising after a previous injury, since the program is highly predictable and pre-programmed for each session.
Every session is individualised to your progress. Your exercise parameters — range of motion, speed and resistance — are set from your own assessment data and refined over the program using the devices' machine-learning driven system, so your progress is graded appropriately as you improve.
No — you can book directly with the clinic for an Initial Consultation with one of our Physiotherapists or Exercise Physiologists.
Because every session is measured, your therapist can show you objective changes in your range of motion, strength (including raw torque values compared to normative data), fatigue, and use this with your reported pain scores over the course of your program — not just a subjective sense of "feeling better."
Yes, IOH Health is committed to evidence based practice. The GetBack treatment protocols are supported by more than 35 peer-reviewed articles, and the evidence base has been independently evaluated by Deakin University.
Information for Specialists and Health Professionals
To find out more please visit getback.com.au
Movement as medicine
DAVID Medical Devices are designed to provide a safe and effective way of improving mobility, strength and spinal coordination.
Your rehabilitation program is managed on the EVE platform (eValuated Exercise). EVE is rehabilitation software that manages the whole treatment process providing quantifiable data on your progress in real-time.