Understand and take control of your back pain.
myBackPain uses structured safety first reasoning to help you better understand what may be causing your back pain, and guide appropriate next steps — based on your individual presentation.
A structured pathway through the complexity
Helping you understand your back pain, support recovery — where possible — and guide appropriate next steps, such as who to see, which treatments are suitable and which are not.
Safety screening first
Before anything else, myBackPain looks for symptoms that need prompt medical attention. If any are present, this is flagged immediately and clearly.
Understanding your specific pain pattern
Onset, duration, behaviour, aggravating and relieving factors, location, and spread — the assessment builds a detailed picture of how your pain actually works, not just where it is.
Identifying the most likely causes
Based on your specific answers, the assessment establishes the contextual likelihood of different causes — spinal structures, nerve involvement, joint causes, referred pain, inflammatory features, or a combination.
Ruling out less likely causes
Knowing what your pain is less likely to be is as useful as knowing what it probably is. The assessment considers and accounts for alternatives, not just the most obvious possibility.
Guiding your next steps
Whether that is self-management and recovery advice, a recommendation to see a specific type of practitioner, or a clear steer toward your GP — the report gives you a specific, reasoned recommendation.
Producing a report you can use
A structured summary of your symptoms, the most likely causes, and the recommended next steps — one you can read yourself, take to a practitioner, or share with your GP.
Why a structured approach matters
Some causes need prompt attention
Most back pain is not dangerous. But a small number of presentations need medical assessment promptly — and knowing which is which matters. A structured approach screens for these systematically, not as an afterthought.
Symptoms can overlap
Many different conditions produce similar pain. A disc problem, a joint issue, referred pain from the hip or pelvis, an inflammatory condition, or something that needs medical investigation can all feel similar on the surface. Without careful questioning, important distinctions get missed.
The first explanation is not always the right one
It is natural to accept the first plausible explanation for your pain. But back pain often has more than one contributing cause — and the most obvious explanation is not always the most important one.
Pain changes over time
Back pain is not always static. How it behaves as time passes — whether it improves, plateaus, or develops new features — gives important information about what is driving it and what to do next.
A detailed personalised report for £12.99
Your report helps you understand
- Whether your symptoms suggest anything needing prompt medical attention
- Which causes appear more or less likely based on your presentation
- What patterns your symptoms fit — and why
- Appropriate next steps and when to seek further help
- Which types of treatment or self-management may be most suitable
- How to support your recovery safely and confidently
- Free access to relevant factsheets and a free eBook
Exercise & Movement Library
Optional lifetime access to back pain specific exercise and movement guidance is also available for a one-off fee of £50.
- Full exercise and movement library
- Developed specifically for back pain conditions
- Lifetime access — no subscription
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The pattern of your pain tells a story
The key to understanding back pain is asking the right questions — in the right order, with the right clinical logic behind them. It's also important to invest a little time in understanding the cause, because in many cases a better understanding of what is driving your pain really aids long-term recovery.
What makes your pain better or worse, when it started, how it has behaved, and what other symptoms you have alongside it all point toward some causes and away from others.
myBackPain uses a structured assessment developed by an experienced spinal care practitioner to ask those questions systematically — the same kind of thorough questioning that happens in a good clinical consultation, available to anyone at any time.
What myBackPain is — and is not
myBackPain is a structured assessment tool built on clinical reasoning principles used by experienced spinal care practitioners. It applies those principles in a form that is accessible, clear, and genuinely useful to anyone experiencing back pain.
myBackPain does not diagnose. It identifies patterns and guides next steps. A specific diagnosis always requires clinical assessment by a qualified practitioner. myBackPain helps you arrive at that assessment — or decide whether you need one — better informed and more clearly focused.
Understand and take control of your back pain.
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