Lower Back Exercises

"Which Should You Never Do?"

Most people jump in and use lower back exercises without knowing which are good and which are potentially harmful.

Read on to make sure you avoid the mistakes others have made that can actually make your back pain worse.

Firstly, you plan to use exercises to strengthen your back. Exercise is an integral part of back pain relief. But it is only a part of the process.

You still need to stretch tight muscles and get your joints moving better. Finally you need to learn ways to rebalance your pelvis. Lower back exercises though are essential for long lasting relief.

Yet most people use exercise incorrectly and end up having more pain than you ever wanted.

Which Exercises Are Potential Nightmares?

The common lower back routines target your lower back muscles, your abdominals and your Gluteal and thigh regions. Collectively these are called your core muscles. It is these muscles that lower back exercise needs to target.

However, exercise is potentially distressing to your back. If you are currently experiencing pain, then you need to be very cautious when using exercise.

Make sure you never hyper-extend your back. This means if you do any back extensions, you do not go past the horizontal line.

If you do you can easily upset the Facet joints, which are commonly inflamed or irritated in lower back pain.

Any forward type exercise targeting your abdominal group needs caution also. You need to try to keep your spine in a neutral position as much as possible. Neutral means keeping the curve in your spine that is present when you are standing. You also need to keep knees bent and any straight leg type exercise is best avoided.

Why?

Using the straight leg exercises place huge strain on your lower back. If you are in pain, this can easily aggravate your pain. Does this mean never use these, no? But you need to use these once pain has gone and you are trying to build your core strength to maintain a healthy spine.

Which Lower Back Exercises Are Best Now?

The best lower back exercise to use now are not actually for pain relief or strength.

The best exercises are actually a way of finding out what type of distortion pattern you have in your spine. If you can identify what pattern you have, you are then able to know which lower back exercise is best to remove pain and to strengthen your spine.

The generic exercises fail to help back pain and fail to give you the strength and support you need in your spine. They are not specific enough to correct the imbalances you have in your spine.

Knowing how to identify these patterns allows you to target your pain quickly. It also allows you to be able to see your progress. You are able to observe these patterns changing and strength appearing in your spine.

Just click the link below to download a FREE copy of an eBook, which teaches you how to identify the patterns that exist. It will also teach you some simple way to ease you pain now. Once you know what pattern you have you can then use lower back exercises safely and effectively.

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