Stretching Exercise for Lower Back Pain

Lower Back Stretching Exercises Video- Flexion (Forward Bend) in Sitting

This is a nice easy stretching exercise for lower back pain that can be practiced anywhere from the home to the office. This stretch exercise moves the joints, ligaments and muscles in your lower back. It also gets you in the habit of moving your back independently of your pelvis and helps to strengthen your stomach muscles. One of the most common causes of non-specific lower back pain is muscle spasm, this can be caused by a variety of things, commonly a strained joint or ligament. This nice simple stretch might help you ease out any lower back muscle spasm.

Video of Lower Back Stretching Exercise - Flexion in Sitting

Level – Easy

• Sit down on a low stool or chair and curl down towards the floor.
  
  
• If you bend from the hip it makes the exercise too easy. It can look as if you have a wonderfully flexible spine, when in fact it has hardly moved at all! Try, instead to concentrate on curling your spine down one vertebra at a time, I use the phrase 'concertina' down to the floor as this seems to help.
  
  
• Don’t let your bottom lift up as that is a cheat as well and makes this exercise too easy.
  
  
• Stop when you feel a stretch in your lower back and hold it for a few seconds.
  
  
• You may not get very far before you feel this stretch - don't worry, just practice and the movement should improve.

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23-Aug-2010