5 Surprising Things to Avoid with Chronic Back Pain

📌 Learn more about IROM procedures at https://www.BondMedicalCenter.com Stretching feels great until it wears off. Your core work isn't holding. Your chiropractic adjustments pop right back out. If any of this sounds familiar, there's a reason your back pain keeps returning, and it's not that you're doing these things wrong. It usually means something deeper is going on with the structure of your spine, and no amount of temporary fixes will solve it until that gets addressed. In this video, I'm going to break down five common habits people use to manage chronic back pain and explain what it means when each one stops working. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 7 SURPRISING THINGS TO AVOID WITH CHRONIC BACK PAIN 0:26 Stretching that doesn't hold 2:33 Core work that isn't improving your back 4:12 When chiropractic adjustments keep slipping 7:15 Why subluxations happen in the first place 9:12 Living on anti inflammatories 11:30 The problem with repeated cortisone shots 12:40 Why steroids cause diminishing returns 13:42 How to actually fix the root problem instead of covering it up QUESTIONS ANSWERED Q: Why does my back feel loose again right after stretching or an adjustment? A: This usually means the spinal segment is unstable, so the muscles tighten up again to protect it. Stretching or adjusting can temporarily relieve the spasm by loosening tight muscles, but it does not fix the underlying looseness in the joint itself, so the same pattern repeats within hours or days. Q: Is it bad to take anti inflammatories every day for back pain? A: Yes, because inflammation is actually part of the healing process, and blocking it daily can slow tissue repair while masking the real problem underneath. Daily use of NSAIDs also carries black box warnings for heart attack, stroke, kidney damage, and gastrointestinal bleeding, especially with long term use. Q: Do repeated cortisone shots stop working over time? A: Yes, research shows diminishing returns with repeated steroid injections, meaning each shot tends to provide less relief and for a shorter period than the last. Repeated use can also create scar tissue around the injection site and, especially in women, contribute to local bone loss and weakening of nearby tendons. Watch Next    • PRP vs Stem Cells for Back Pain: Don’t Mak...   PRP vs Stem Cells for Back Pain: Don’t Make This Mistake RESOURCES Website: https://www.BondMedicalCenter.com 🔔 If this helped you understand your MRI report, subscribe for more videos on spinal pain, orthopedic pain, and regenerative alternatives to surgery. 💬 Which of these five have you tried for your back pain? Tell me in the comments, I read every one. ABOUT DR. THOMAS BOND Dr. Thomas Bond, MD, MS, is a board certified sports medicine and regenerative medicine physician with over 20 years of experience treating chronic back, neck, and joint pain. After being told he needed multi level spinal fusions himself, he sought out alternatives and became one of the first five physicians in the Regenexx Physician Network. He was the first physician in Louisiana to perform ultrasound guided PRP and BMAC procedures, has treated over 100,000 patients, and has trained physicians in a dozen countries across three continents. He created the IROM (Interventional Regenerative Orthopedic Medicine) approach to help patients heal and avoid unnecessary surgery whenever possible. #DegenerativeDiscDisease #BackPainRelief #RegenerativeMedicine #SpineHealth #AvoidSurgery