Back pain is one of the leading causes of pain, reduced movement and disability globally, and it is most common in adults between the ages of 35 and 56 (1). It is the main cause of absence from work and has a detrimental social and economic burden on individuals, families, but also countrywide, for example the United Kingdom has approximately 100 million workday absences attributed to back pain alone (1). The terms ‘acute’ and ‘chronic’ are used to define whether it is a shor