MS Speaks

Posture has been an issue for me too. The physical therapists always give me core-strengthening exercises, and I  keep doing them.


I have arthritis and scoliosis too  and figure that some of the back pain is due to one of those.


Some of my back pain gets triggered by leaning in certain ways, and just avoiding those positions keeps the pain from coming on. It's much easier to deal with that kind of pain than the kind that is there constantly, making it impossible to sleep.


My experiences with physical therapy have been about half a dozen different courses of it over the years, each one for 8 sessions, usually once or twice a week.  Each time I noticed that the pain decreased only very slowly and gradually. I had the impression that ultrasound and "electro stim" worked on really acute pain rather well.


I did the at-home exercises exactly as the PT said to do them. It was time-consuming and boring but had to be done, as I saw it.


I was lucky in usually having very competent physical therapists, who weren't just running me through an assembly line.


The last PT I had mentioned to me once that some of her patients say that the PT doesn't help them. So maybe there are situations where it isn't the answer.