Sydney researchers find a new way to treat chronic back pain

A new treatment for chronic back pain focuses on retraining how the back and the brain communicate. Photo: Getty

A new study is encouraging a radical step away from the traditional way we treat chronic back pain.

Researchers at UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) say we should no longer look at chronic back as a disc, bone or muscle problem, instead recasting it as a modifiable problem of the nervous system.