If you experience pain in the mid section of your back and have trouble maintaining a good posture while sitting and/or standing, you may be suffering from thoracic stiffness or other ailment. Gatton Physiotherapy recommends a timely visit to a physiotherapist.
To make things easy for you, we’d recommend you to talk to your physician for EPC eligibility and a subsequent referral to physiotherapist. This way, if you are EPC eligible, you will be able to save your expenses and avail medicare through bulk billing physiotherapy services.
If you are not aware of the thoracic region, it is the mid rang of your spinal column comprising 12 thoracic vertebra.
Staying in wrong or stressful postures for too long can result in thoracic stiffness and thus requires physiotherapy. Gatton Physiotherapy recommends special attention to chronic thoracic pain in a good physio clinic.
Thoracic pain is most commonly observed among athletes and sportspersons. A common factor among them is the stress their backs go through. Add squatting and weightlifting to it and stiff mid-back worsens the movement, resulting in worsening the condition. It becomes a circle and must be treated right on the onset.
And as far as getting bulk billing physiotherapy is concerned, as we mentioned earlier, you just need to be EPC eligible for it. You can discuss the same with your physician. Australian medicare policies say that bulk billing physiotherapy will require a patient to be EPC eligible.
Till then, always remember, good posture is the key to health. Talk to a physiotherapist if you are not able to maintain one.