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Lower Back Pain Assessment — Find Your Cause in 3 Minutes
Answer 10 clinical questions and instantly discover whether your back pain is from a slip disc, sciatica, muscle strain, or spondylosis — with a personalised treatment plan from Dr. Tarun Garg.
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3-Minute Quiz
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What This Assessment Does
This free tool uses clinically validated symptom patterns to indicate the likely cause of your lower back pain — including slip disc, sciatica, lumbar spondylosis, mechanical back pain, and SI joint dysfunction — and provides an evidence-based treatment recommendation. It does not replace a physical examination by a qualified physiotherapist.
Expert Answers
Common Questions About Back Pain
Answers from Dr. Tarun Garg and the PhysioNutra Clinic team
Lower back pain most commonly arises from muscle strain or ligament sprain, herniated (slip) disc, sciatica due to nerve root compression, lumbar spondylosis (age-related disc wear), facet joint syndrome, spinal stenosis, or sacroiliac joint dysfunction. Prolonged sitting, poor posture, heavy lifting, and lack of core strength are the leading contributing factors. A physiotherapy assessment can pinpoint the exact cause and guide targeted treatment.
Physiotherapy treatment for lower back pain includes spinal manual therapy and mobilisation, targeted core stabilisation exercises, dry needling for trigger points, electrotherapy (IFT, TENS, therapeutic ultrasound), postural correction and ergonomic advice, and personalised home exercise programmes. At PhysioNutra Clinic, Dr. Tarun Garg uses evidence-based, criteria-driven protocols tailored to each patient's specific diagnosis and functional goals.
Seek immediate medical attention if you experience leg weakness or foot drop, loss of bladder or bowel control, numbness in the groin or inner thighs (saddle anaesthesia), back pain following significant trauma (accident or fall), unexplained fever with back pain, or severe night pain that wakes you from sleep. These are red flag symptoms that require urgent evaluation — potentially indicating cauda equina syndrome or other serious spinal pathology.
Research consistently shows that 90% of slip disc (herniated disc) cases respond well to conservative physiotherapy without surgery. At PhysioNutra Clinic, evidence-based manual therapy, spinal mobilisation, and nerve mobilisation techniques resolve the majority of herniated disc cases within 6–12 weeks. Surgery is typically reserved for cases where conservative treatment fails or red flag neurological symptoms are present. Early physiotherapy intervention significantly reduces the risk of progressing to chronic pain or surgery.
PhysioNutra Clinic offers expert back pain physiotherapy at its main clinic at SCO 12, Ananta Square, Gazipur Road, Zirakpur — approximately 15 minutes from Chandigarh and 10 minutes from Mohali. A branch clinic is in Sector 20, Panchkula. Home physiotherapy visits are available across Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula, Kharar, and surrounding areas. Call or WhatsApp +91 94177 91833 to book a same-day or next-day appointment.