If you are struggling to find some low back pain relief, determining what your painful triggers are and avoiding them can be really helpful in your recovery. It’s important to stay active doing the things that don’t trigger symptoms while avoiding problem activities. This allows your injured back structures a chance to heal.
For many, bending is a major trigger for low back pain. You may have pain with a small bend like brushing your teeth, a long duration bend like when you are washing dishes, or a loaded bend picking up your laundry.
Replacing your painful bending with hip hinging can allow you to stay functional with less low back pain. And by avoiding the pain of bending by hinging instead, you give your injured structures a chance to heal. Good hinging also helps develop good hip and back strength.
If you are struggling to do a proper, pain free hinge, don’t be surprised. It’s hard to learn a new activity when you are in pain. And if your low back muscles are really tense and guarding from injury, they may not like the new workload that hinging creates.
If you are having trouble learning to hinge for low back pain relief, give me a call at 802-489-7842, I’d love to help!
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