When Jabez Allies developed chronic lower back pain 10 years ago, her doctor sent her to the physio, who recommended different types of stretching and exercises – some that helped, some that didn’t help at all – as well as hot-water bottles and painkillers.
But as the pain got progressively worse every year, so too did Allies’ feelings of being overwhelmed – frustrated she couldn’t do the things she could before and spiralling into hopelessness that there was nothing she could do to fix it.
