Strong and Stable Low Back

When your posture is out of alignment, your body is exposed to more stress during normal movements and even at rest. This leads to your body breaking down, often in the low back. Improving your postural alignment reduces excess stress on your body.

Although there are many approaches to deal with low back pain, to completely overcome your low back pain, your brain must connect with your body in order to hold your body with good postural alignment and move with good posture. This takes developing proper movement mechanics to correctly hold your body and move your body with good postural alignment.

The core provides protection to your low back and the rest of your body for that matter.

Weak core muscles leave your low back exposed to potential pain and injury at much lower levels of physical stress than if your core muscles are at normal strength.

In order to strengthen your core muscles to a normal level, it only takes a relatively small amount of time and effort. 

Your core must be trained in balance within your body. The lower abdominals are the most common core muscle that is weak when compared to the hip flexors.

This imbalance between the lower abdominals and the hip flexors causes your low back to take on way more stress than it should, even when your movements are not that strenuous. To correct this imbalance, there are a series of exercises I implement which starts by isolating your lower abdominals without the hip flexors.

As you progress, I slowly reincorporate the hip flexors back into the exercise in order to create balance between these two crucial muscles that often cause low back pain when out of balance!

One main issue where poor nutrition increases low back pain is consuming foods that cause you internal inflammation.

This inflammation causes your stomach and intestines to distend. When this happens, your body will shut down your core muscles in order to leave space for your inflamed organs.

This results in pain radiating out to different areas of your body including your low back AND your abdominal muscles no longer protect your low back because these muscles shut down in order to create the space for your organs to distend into your abdominal area.

Discovering and removing any foods that cause you internal inflammation will be a big step towards reducing your low back pain as well as, protecting your low back from future stress of daily life.

An often overlooked area when it comes to addressing low back pain is allowing your body to heal itself.

The most ideal time your body gets the most healing time is during sleep. If your sleep is less than ideal, this can disrupt your body’s ability to heal.

This requires you having enough restful sleep. As complicated a subject as sleep is, there are many areas and strategies that we address to improve your sleep quality and quantity in order to allow your body the best chance to heal itself.

Although it may feel counterintuitive to move when you hurt, movement will often aid in your low back feeling better.

This movement can take many forms. The most common movement I suggest is walking which is an excellent way to move your body which will loosen your body and pump your blood. This promotes healing. Other movements include: light strength training, stretching, biking, and yoga to name a few.

The key here is to incorporate movement that helps you feel better while you simultaneously work on a specific program that directly addresses your low back pain such as the one I offer here.

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