BackCare has a range of information sheets that give background information and practical tips on various aspects of back pain and back care. You can view these information sheets on our site or print them.
We regularly review our existing information sheets and add new ones if needed.
Document downloads
- (38.3Kb, pdf)
Access to Work (AtW) is a service offered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) It provides advice and practical support to disabled people and their employers to help overcome work-related obstacles resulting from a disability.
- (45.8Kb, pdf)
A clinical negligence claim may be brought against any health care provider when (a) Care is not of an acceptable standard, and (b) Injury or death results
- (43.9Kb, pdf)
A claim for damages can be brought when chronic back pain can be shown to arise from road accidents or accidents at work
- (41.5Kb, pdf)
The process of age-related change or degeneration in the tissues and structres of the spine.
- (40.8Kb, pdf)
Spondylosis and Osteoarthritis usually occur together. Spondylosis is the name for changes that occur, often with age, to the vertebral joints of the back. Episodes of severe pain can occur but rarely signal a serious problem. Lifestyle changes and self-help work for most people.
- (39.1Kb, pdf)
Sciatica in its widest definition is pain in the distribution of the sciatic nerve. That is the buttock, back of thigh, whole leg and foot. It has many causes including direct pressure on the nerve roots in the spinal canal or foramina, or the direct pressure on the nerve sheets.
- (43.1Kb, pdf)
Pain in the neck (Cervical spine pain)
- (41.7Kb, pdf)
The facet joints act like hinges. It is a dynamic structure and does not lock
- (44.6Kb, pdf)
The thoracic spine is the part of the backbone that runs through the back of the chest and is made up of 12 vertebrae (the circular bones that make up the backbone).
- (31.7Kb, pdf)
There is very little information available about pain in the coccyx area. It can be frustrating looking up coccydinia in back books and finding no reference or just a brief description of it as pain in the 'vestigial tail bone'!