Low back pain can be caused by various factors, and understanding these can be crucial in managing your condition. In this email, we’ll explore some common causes of low back pain and examples of activities that may cause you pain with each.
- Disc dysfunction: Pain with bending forward, putting on shoes, sitting for a long period of time, stiffness in the back felt each morning
- Facet syndrome: Pain with arching back, reaching back or up for something overhead, pain with walking or standing for prolonged periods of time
- Nerve pain: Pain that seems to move around in butt, hip or leg or multiple pain areas such as hip, knee, or foot pain on one side
- Muscle strain: Pain with small movements in general and severe muscle tightness, some muscle spasms can be the cause of one of the above problems and the muscle is just trying to protect the back from further structural damage
- Disc Degeneration or Stenosis: Age-related changes in spinal discs can lead to chronic low back pain. The joints become arthritic after discs lose their height, causing stiffness, loss of range of motion and chronic tension in surrounding muscles.
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Here’s an exercise to get you started
This is one of my go to for patients when they feel tension in the low back and they need some relief.
