This is what Sally, 59 from Balham, was told when she went for a consultation with her GP about her back pain before coming to see me. Getting older is blamed for a lot of medical problems but back pain should not be one of them. If getting older meant that you were inevitably going to be in pain then everyone in the world who was over a certain age would be in pain, which they are not. On her first session with me, Sally described her daily struggle with back ache which was