{"id":2400,"date":"2019-09-24T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/?post_type=review&amp;p=2400"},"modified":"2019-09-24T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:15:53","slug":"lower-back-injury-sciatica","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arc4health\/case-studies\/lower-back-injury-sciatica\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Back Injury &amp; Sciatica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I initially suffered a back injury in 2008 after a heavy fall in training. After physiotherapy had no impact on the pain and mobility, I had an MRI scan and found that there were several areas of disc damage in my lower back. I had some injections at the time, and frequent physio. Since then I have been prone to sciatica following anything that&#8217;s particularly strenuous on my back &#8211; for example heavy lifting, too much pro-longed standing etc, or being too inactive and sitting at a desk all day at work.<\/p>\n<p>Following my purchase of the ArcEquine for my horse, I started using it on the evening after a day of competition. The day following competition has always been a struggle with my back seizing up (a result of walking long undulating eventing courses in addition to a full day riding, battling with getting studs in etc), so I thought it was worth a shot. I&#8217;ve really noticed a difference this year since using the Arc in this way &#8211; I&#8217;ve found myself to be in much less pain the day following competition and find my mobility much better, enabling me to do the necessary stretches and exercises to fully recover. I have been able to cut down the amount and frequency of physiotherapy appointments, and I&#8217;m sure if I wasn&#8217;t putting the ArcEquine on my horses so much and used it for my own maintenance as well as just recovery after competition, I would be in even better shape!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I initially suffered a back injury in 2008 after a heavy fall in training. After physiotherapy had no impact on the pain and mobility, I had an MRI scan and found that there were several areas of disc damage in my lower back. I had some injections at the time, and frequent physio. Since then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","case-studies-cat":[],"class_list":["post-2400","case-studies","type-case-studies","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arc4health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case-studies\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arc4health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case-studies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arc4health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/case-studies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arc4health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case-studies\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arc4health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"case-studies-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arc4health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case-studies-cat?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}