Stretches For Lower Back Pain

Stretches For Lower Back Pain

Are you suffering from Lower Back Pain?

• If you’ve spent a fortune on doctors, physios, chiros and chemists and you’re still in pain, it’s time you took control and treat the cause of the pain yourself.

Discover The Most Effective Lower Back Pain Stretches for Natural Back Pain Relief.

Two Common Lower Back Pain Stretches

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These two exercises are about the only exercises you’ll get from your doctor. There’s nothing wrong with them, in actual fact, they’re good stretches. By all means, do them.

However, the chances that they will do much to get rid of your back pain are pretty remote because these stretches don’t go to the source of your problem – which is usually tight muscles attached to your pelvis – front, back and sides.

If you’ve come to this website you’re one of many people who believe they can relieve back pain by using Lower Back Stretches.

You’re definitely on the right track. In fact, it’s the simplest, quickest and most cost-effective way you can go about relieving your lower back pain.

Now all you have to do is decide which muscles need stretching and what are the most effective stretches.

Looking for Clues

There are several important principles that will help you work out which muscles need stretching.

1. Back pain is a symptom that bones in the lower part of your spinal column are out of alignment. You don’t want to just mask the symptom, you want to fix the underlying cause of the problem.
2. It is tight muscles that have drawn the pelvis and the bones above it out of alignment; hence the need to loosen these muscles if you want lasting pain relief.
3. It is unlikely that the muscles that are the cause of the problem are at the site where it’s painful. On the contrary, it is highly likely that the culprits are tight muscles attached to your pelvis – front, back and sides.

Now for the most important finding in recent back pain research

Tight muscles draw the pelvis out of alignment.

When the pelvis moves out of alignment, the bones above it move out of alignment.

When the pelvis is tilted backwards by tight hamstring and buttock muscles, the bones in your lower back are dragged out of alignment and the natural ‘S-shaped curve of the spine becomes a ‘C’ shape – as illustrated in the picture opposite.

Coupled with that, the pelvis may rotate and one side may drop lower than the other. All this impacts the alignment of the bones in your lower back.

When the bones in your lower back move out of alignment, ligaments, tendons and muscles around those bones are stretched beyond their pain threshold.

Sooner or later discs bulge and then herniate. When that happens, every time you sneeze or cough it feels like a red-hot poker is being rammed into your back.

Most therapists will want to rub, crunch, heat and vibrate the spot where it hurts, not loosen off the tight muscles around your pelvis that are the underlying cause of the program. Lower back pain is definitely not caused by a lack of rubbing, crunching, heating and vibrating.

The natural inclination is to stretch the muscles where it hurts. The doctor will give you the two exercises at the top of the page. But as I’ve already said, they’re useful but don’t do much to re-align your pelvis.

Of course, the doctor’s main weapon of choice is the prescription of a drug to mask the pain. Where I come from it’s called ‘junk medicine’. But pain masked is not a problem solved. In fact, it diverts people’s attention away from doing the strength and flexibility exercises that will restore poor function to good.

Very few bones were ever drawn back into alignment by Vioxx, Voltaren, Ibuprofen or Celebrex. The problem keeps getting worse. The next stop is Oxycontin. The next stop after that is the Betty Ford Centre!

The final destination is the knife and that will set you back 50 Grand (for a couple of hours of work) if you troll through the back pain groups on the internet you’ll see that a lot of people who’ve had back surgery are still in pain. The reason is that back pain is not caused by a lack of surgery!

The big secret to relieving lower back pain is loosening the muscles that are causing the pelvis to move out of alignment.

Let me illustrate this point for you.

If you’re looking for clues as to the cause of your back pain look no further than these three pictures.

Wall Sit

Can you sit up straight, legs outstretched, backs of knees on the floor and your bottom close in against the wall?

 

Sit up straight

Can you sit up straight with your legs crossed, your hands clasped behind your back and your spine in an ‘S’ shape?

Hip crossover

Can you comfortably rest your knee and foot on the floor?

If you cannot comfortably do these exercises you can safely say your lower back pain is being caused by a pelvis that is out of alignment.

What causes muscles attached to your pelvis to tighten up?

1. Years of inactivity. It’s called motion starvation. If you don’t have a regular strength and flexibility training program, it’s almost inevitable that you’ll end up with lower back pain. It comes with years of spending most of the day sitting down and years without a strength and flexibility program that’s designed to keep the body in good alignment. Look no further than the slump dog diagram.
2. If you sit down for decades, the calf, hamstring and buttock muscles gradually become tighter and tighter. The march toward dysfunction is imperceptibly slow. You don’t notice it’s happening, until one day, you swivel round to pick up a phone book, put a bag of groceries into your car, sneeze – and BAMMO, your back’s ‘gone out’ and you’re in excruciating pain. Likely as not you’ll blame the critical incident, not the years of neglect that led to it.
3. It may come as a result of hand and foot dominance. Every time you kick, throw and hit you rotate your body in the same direction. Every time you kick, throw and hit you rotate your body in the same direction.
4. It could come as a result of the way you sit in your car, pelvis twisted with one foot on the accelerator.
5. It could even come from sitting down for 20 years with a big fat Uncle Sam wallet in your hip pocket.

Until you can square up a pelvis that is out of alignment you won’t make a great deal of progress in reducing your back pain.

In the Fix Back Pain ebook, I’ll teach you exactly which lower back stretches you need to do to square yourself up, how to do them, how long to do them for and how often to do them in order to get the bones of your lower back into better alignment and pain-free.
In fact, what I’m going to do is teach you to become your own therapist.

What we’re talking about here is not rocket science. You don’t need to wear a white coat or dangle a stethoscope around your neck to work out which muscles need loosening and which muscles need strengthening in order to get your body back into alignment and pain-free.

What about strength exercises?

I’ll also teach you the strength exercises you need to do. In fact, two of the best predictors of risk of lower back pain are your ability to do situps and press-ups. Not being able to do any – or only a few – will provide you with more clues as to why you’ve got back pain.

But apart from a few specific exercises, what your body needs is a good all-around strength training program so that muscles designed to support all of the bones in your body in correct alignment are retrained and re-activated to do the job they’ve stopped doing.

The Global Back Care Fix Back Pain ebook contains one of the most comprehensive sets of lower back stretches available on the internet. It includes:

Who am I to provide you with this advice?

I’m John Miller, a professional physical educator living in Canberra, Australia. I conduct musculoskeletal health programs for corporate organisations. In fact, I’ve run hundreds of courses on back pain and treated thousands of people, just like you.

Secondly, I’m a qualified fitness practitioner having spent years running a fitness centre and taking people through my Global Back Care program.

It’s running these programs that have prompted me to create this website and produce the Global Back Care series of ebooks; all so that people all around the world can fix their musculoskeletal pain.

Thirdly, and this is just as important, I’ve had lower back pain myself. All the things listed above, like – can’t sneeze without it feeling like someone is jabbing a red hot poker into your back, can’t bend over the wash basin to brush your teeth, can’t put on your socks …

In fact, I don’t have any musculoskeletal pain, principally because I’ve worked out how to get rid of it.

I’m now passing this knowledge on to you.

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Regards and best wishes for a pain-free life.