Most chronic back
pain is a muscle problem.
We treat muscles.
Years of chiropractors, physical therapy, and careful movement — and yet it persists. For the significant proportion of chronic lower back pain driven by weak core and pelvic floor musculature, the path forward isn't managing the pain. It's rebuilding the foundation that's been missing.
Your Back Isn't the Problem. What's Supposed to Be Supporting It Is.
The lumbar spine does not support itself. It is held in place by the deep stabilizing muscles that surround it — the multifidus and erector spinae at the back, the transversus abdominis in front, and the pelvic floor below. When any of these muscles weaken, the spine loses its support system and compensatory patterns develop. Superficial muscles overwork. Joints load asymmetrically. Pain follows — and persists.
Research consistently links chronic low back pain to core and pelvic floor dysfunction — not just disc issues, nerve problems, or structural pathology. Many patients who have been told their pain is structural have muscular weakness as the primary unaddressed driver. Physical therapy teaches the nervous system how to use these muscles; EMSCULPT NEO® and EMSELLA® actually rebuild the muscles themselves at a depth and intensity no exercise can replicate.
We do not treat diagnosed structural spinal conditions — disc herniations, stenosis, or nerve compression. But for chronic back pain driven by muscular instability, the Basecamp Core to Floor addresses the root that most other treatments cannot reach.
Building the Support System Your Back Has Been Missing
Applied to the deep abdominal and lumbar stabilizer muscle groups, EMSCULPT NEO® delivers supramaximal electromagnetic contractions that rebuild the structural musculature supporting the spine. The functional protocol specifically targets the muscles most critical to back stability — not just cosmetic core improvement. Sessions run 30 minutes. No exercise required. Results compound over a series of 4–6 sessions and continue developing for weeks after the final treatment.
EMSCULPT NEO® page →The pelvic floor is the bottom wall of the core system — and when it's weak or dysfunctional, everything above it compensates. Many chronic back pain patients have an unaddressed pelvic floor component that neither their GP nor physical therapist has fully evaluated. EMSELLA® restores pelvic floor strength and neuromuscular coordination in 6 sessions, fully clothed, 28 minutes each. For patients whose back pain has a pelvic floor root, improvement can be significant and relatively rapid.
EMSELLA® page →For back pain patients whose deficit involves both core and pelvic floor weakness — which describes many chronic cases — the Basecamp Core to Floor combines EMSCULPT NEO® and EMSELLA® in a customized, sequenced plan. We assess the specific muscular pattern driving your pain, design a targeted session schedule, and coordinate with your existing physical therapy or medical care. This is not instead of your other providers — it's what makes their work more effective and more lasting.
Basecamp Core to Floor page →"The muscle doesn't know it's supposed to come back. We give it the signal — at a depth and intensity that exercise and physical therapy alone cannot reach."
Joan Shelley, NP · Medical Director, Le Sommet MedSpaCommon Questions
How do I know if my back pain is muscular vs. structural?+
I'm already in physical therapy. Can I do this at the same time?+
How many sessions will I need?+
Address the root.
Not just the pain.
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