BPS© YOGA
BPS Yoga is not about forcing flexibility or chasing poses. It’s a pain-informed, nervous-system-aware movement practice designed to restore length, mobility, and ease without provoking symptoms. Built specifically for people with back pain, BPS Yoga focuses on safe ranges, intelligent sequencing, and rebuilding trust in movement — helping the body release protective tension rather than fight against it. Unlike traditional yoga, BPS Yoga is fully integrated into the Back Pain Systems™ framework. Every movement supports the wider RESET process — repairing patterns, improving load sharing, and restoring efficient movement chains. The aim isn’t to stretch more, but to move better. Over time, BPS Yoga helps reduce stiffness, improve confidence, and create a calmer, more adaptable body that supports long-term back health and freedom.
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BPS MOVE is about restoring confidence in movement, not pushing performance. It focuses on retraining everyday movement patterns — bending, lifting, walking, reaching — so your body moves efficiently without triggering pain. This isn’t fitness for fitness’ sake; it’s movement education designed to help your back cope with real life. Integrated with the RESET system, BPS MOVE improves coordination, timing, and load sharing across the whole body. As movement becomes more organised and adaptable, fear reduces, capacity increases, and your back stops feeling fragile. The goal is simple: move more, with less effort and less pain.
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BPS SPACE addresses one of the most overlooked drivers of back pain: compression, tension, and lack of movement freedom. When joints, tissues, and the nervous system feel crowded or restricted, pain thrives. BPS SPACE creates room — physically and neurologically — for the body to move and adapt again. Through gentle decompression, breathing strategies, and positional work, BPS SPACE helps reduce pressure, improve circulation, and calm the system. It’s not about stretching harder, but about restoring space so movement feels lighter, safer, and more comfortable.
Read MoreBPS© LIVES
Back pain doesn’t live in isolation — it lives in busy lives, stress, poor sleep, habits, and constant demands. BPS LIVES helps you understand how daily behaviours, routines, and pressures influence pain — and how small, realistic changes can make a big difference. This pillar supports you in applying Back Pain Systems principles to work, home, travel, and recovery. The aim is sustainability: reducing flare-ups, improving resilience, and helping your back fit into your life — not the other way around.
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BPS FOOD focuses on using nutrition to support healing, reduce inflammation, and fuel recovery — without extremes, guilt, or fads. What you eat affects pain sensitivity, energy levels, tissue repair, and nervous system health, and this pillar helps you make sense of it all. Rather than rigid meal plans, BPS FOOD offers practical guidance that fits real life. The goal is to nourish your body in a way that supports movement, recovery, and long-term back health — not perfection.
Read MoreBPS© DRIVERS
BPS DRIVERS helps uncover the hidden factors that keep back pain stuck. These may include old injuries, movement habits, stress patterns, fear, poor sleep, or previous failed treatments — often working together beneath the surface. By identifying and understanding your personal drivers, this pillar removes the mystery around “why your pain keeps coming back.” Clarity creates confidence — and confidence allows meaningful change to happen.
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BPS SUPP’S provides clear, evidence-informed guidance on supplements that may support joint health, muscle function, nervous system balance, and recovery — without unnecessary or conflicting advice. This pillar cuts through the noise, helping you understand what’s helpful, what’s not, and how supplementation fits alongside movement, nutrition, and lifestyle. Supplements are support tools — not magic fixes — and BPS SUPP’S keeps them in their rightful place.
Read MoreBPS© LEARN
BPS LEARN empowers you with understanding, not overwhelm. When you know how pain works — and how your body adapts — fear reduces and better decisions follow. This pillar offers clear, accessible education on back pain, movement, and recovery, helping you make sense of symptoms and progress. Knowledge isn’t just information here — it’s a tool for independence, confidence, and long-term freedom.
Read MoreBPS© THERAPY
BPS THERAPY helps you make sense of the hands-on treatments and therapies often recommended for back pain — and how they fit into your bigger recovery picture. Instead of positioning therapy as something that “fixes” you, this pillar reframes it as supportive input that works best when combined with movement, understanding, and self-management. This pillar guides you in using therapy intelligently — knowing when it’s helpful, when it’s not, and how to get the most from it. Whether you’re accessing physiotherapy, manual therapy, massage, or other approaches, BPS THERAPY ensures treatments support progress rather than create dependency, helping you stay in control of your recovery.
Read MoreGlobal Back Pain Research Initiative
We’re inviting people from around the world to take part in a global back pain research project. By sharing your personal experience through the Back Pain Systems App, you’ll help build one of the largest datasets on how back pain affects real lives — and contribute to a better understanding of what people truly need to heal.
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