therapy helped but christoph meier is also doing his bit going to physiotherapy and getting plenty of exercise. and here he's a doctor for sports medicine and the head of the program for health and fitness at the spot american center then thanks for having me today when i see patients with no big pain they often ask me think get some x. rays or an m.r.i. scan but and when do i have to do an m.r.i. scan is a doctor in most of the cases it's not necessarily cause lower back pain is limited and last for only a couple of days you can receive ear but in most of the cases or less just for a short time that if it does not receipt after a some days or repeated after a certain time or if the doctor suspects change in this case is indicated to carry on for their examinations for example with. x. rays why do so many patients problems in their lower back if there's a problem that mother nature just messed up. really not but right now we are observing that about eighty percent of the patients reporting back pain have some kind of mental or social stress and that means that this is the sort of this