Exercise for Lower Back Pain

Any exercise for lower back pain must achieve two main goals. It must relieve back pain quickly and secondly stop it returning.

Read on to learn a simple technique now that will help strengthen your lower back and help ease your back pain. You will also understand some vital information about lower back pain that is essential for long lasting relief.

Lower back pain is caused by four main factors. An exercise for lower back pain must address these if you plan to have long term back pain relief.

What causes lower back pain?

You will have heard many times before that muscles are a common cause of back pain. However, muscle tension and muscle weakness are equally important. You need to stretch tight muscles to relieve back pain, you also need to strengthen the weak muscles.

To strengthen a muscle properly, you also need to improve the nerve and blood supply to the muscle. Otherwise any exercise for lower back pain will only give you temporary relief.

There are two other common causes of back pain. The first is joint movement, the second is pelvic balance. If your pelvis is out of balance and joints are moving poorly, muscles will always tire and tighten.

For complete back pain relief you need to address all four issues that lead to back pain. For now though, is there a simple exercise you can do that will help your lower back pain?

An exercise for lower back pain

The following is a simple exercise you can use to help strengthen your lower back. It will help ease pain, but it will also indicate how strong your back is.

It is a common exercise called "The Plank".

All you do is lie on the floor with your arms bent and you are resting on your elbows in a press-up position. You then raise your pelvis off the floor keeping your back as straight as possible.

Hold this position for 30 seconds or more.

If you cannot hold this position, or if it causes back pain then you know you have a few more back pain issues. This exercise is a good test for your lower back.

If you cannot perform it easily, it means you have a few muscles that are weak, a pelvis out of balance and likely a few joints not moving correctly.

This also means that using any exercise you use will only give partial and temporary relief. You need to remove ALL the factors causing your pain.

The first step in lower back pain relief

The first step in lower back pain relief, even if you can perform the exercise above, is identifying the cause of your pain. There are distortion patterns that occur in your spine that create your pain.

These distortion patterns are easily identified and are created by the various muscle imbalances and the poor joint movement, as well as the pelvic imbalance.

Once you can identify the distortion pattern, you will understand which exercise for lower back pain is best to use. You will know what and where to target.

Without knowing the causes, you are literally shooting in the dark. You are less likely to remove all the causes and your lower back pain will either fail to ease or will return again shortly.

What is the best approach to ease your lower back pain?

To get long lasting results you must both remove the symptoms and the cause. First you must identify which spinal imbalances are present, then attack the symptomatic processes. This can be achieved by using many techniques from ice/heat, Acupressure and anti-inflammatory measures. Then you must perform corrective techniques that target the spinal imbalances.

The principles of Spinal Balancing address the both the pain and the root cause of the condition that is responsible for your lower right back pain. Through self assessments, your individual spinal imbalances can be identified, and a targeted corrective program can be developed for your specific needs.

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