Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter outlines why desk work causes low-back tightness and a three-step fix: laser therapy to reduce inflammation, regenerative treatments like platelet-rich plasma for damaged discs, then EMSCULPT NEO to rebuild core and glute strength so your spine carries less load.
The desk worker sits 6 to 8 hours a day on average, hunched over a laptop or computer screen, not doing very much. Over time, you start to feel that constant tightness in your low back. Maybe it's worse at the end of the day or just when you stand up. Here's how we treat that at Pinnacle. We would start by reducing inflammation in the lower back using laser therapy and sometimes some nutritional consultation. If needed, we use targeted regenerative therapies to support joints or discs. And then we would rebuild the core and glute strength using the EMSCULPT NEO functional strengthening program so that the back isn't doing all the work because this usually isn't a back problem, it's a support problem.
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