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If your lower back has been aching for days, locking up when you bend, or sending a sharp line of pain down your leg, you already know how much it can take over your life. It changes how you sit, how you sleep, how you pick your kids up. Low back pain is the single most common reason people walk through my door, and here’s what I want you to know straight away: in most cases it gets better, often a lot better, once someone works out what’s actually causing it.
I’m Saurabh Patel (Sam), physiotherapist and owner of Back to Ease Physiotherapy. I provide hands-on physiotherapy in Bayswater for people across Knox, Boronia, Wantirna, Ferntree Gully and the surrounding suburbs. You don’t need a referral, and you don’t need to wait for a GP appointment first – you can book in directly as a private patient and we’ll get to the bottom of it from the very first session.
Our physiotherapists in Bayswater and Doveton help people recover from a wide range of everyday and sporting injuries. These are the areas we’re asked about most.
I hold a postgraduate degree in Advanced Clinical Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy, and the spine is something I work with week in, week out. But qualifications only tell part of the story. What changes outcomes is the time spent listening, assessing properly, and refusing to settle for a quick fix that fades in a fortnight.
What I care about isn’t just easing your pain this week. It’s understanding why the pain turned up in the first place – the movement pattern, the workload, the weakness – so we can address that and stop it cycling back months later. Treating the symptom alone is how people end up in that exhausting loop of feeling better, then flaring up again. I’d rather break the loop.
“Most people I see with back pain have been told to just rest and wait it out. Rest has its place in the first day or two, but the back is built to move – and movement, done right, is usually the medicine. The real work is figuring out what your spine actually needs, then getting you back to lifting your kids, sitting through a workday, or playing sport without that pain sitting in the back of your mind.” – Sam Patel, Physiotherapist
I treat every person as an individual, not a diagnosis on a chart. If your back pain started during sport or training, my sports physiotherapy page is worth a look too, because the two often go hand in hand.
The first appointment is about understanding your story. I’ll ask how the pain started, what makes it better or worse, how it’s affecting your sleep and your day, and what you’re hoping to get back to. Then I’ll assess how your spine, hips and surrounding muscles are genuinely moving. By the end, you’ll have a clear explanation in plain language and a sense of the road ahead.
From there, treatment is usually a blend of two things. There’s the hands-on side – manual therapy and joint mobilisation to ease stiffness, and where it helps, dry needling for tight, guarded muscles. Then there’s the active side, where the lasting change happens: specific, progressive exercise that rebuilds your back’s tolerance so it can handle your real life again. You won’t be handed a generic photocopied sheet of stretches on your way out – everything is built around where you are now and where you want to be.
Low back pain rarely lives in isolation. If your pain traces back to a sporting load, our sports physiotherapy page covers how we manage that. If you’ve had spinal surgery and need a guided return to movement, see post-surgery rehabilitation. And if this started at work, our work injury rehabilitation page explains your options. You can browse everything on the main services page, and find practical day-to-day tips over on the blog.
People travel to Back to Ease from Bayswater, Boronia, Wantirna, Ferntree Gully and across the City of Knox – many after trying to ignore the pain for months. The feedback I hear most often isn’t about a fancy technique. It’s relief that someone finally sat down, explained what was going on, and gave them a clear path forward they could trust.
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