Want to skip ahead?Here’s a link to my post about getting relief on your own. People reach back to touch the crest of their hip and say, “My low back hurts here.” Sometimes they trace up their low back and complain of tightness all the way up to be base of their ribs. When this …
Want to skip ahead?Here’s a link to my post about getting relief on your own. People tend to run a hand up and down their hip and complain of stiffness. Then, they focus on their buttock and say that it focuses on that spot. Often they complain of a stiff low back and included that …
Stiffness in the low back can come from several larger muscles like spinal erectors, latissimus dorsi, and psoas. Fragility in the low back usually comes from a joint problem in the vertebrae. The two patterns play in concert to create a pain pattern that is a combination of the two. This post is a collection …
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Want to skip ahead?Here’s a link to my post about getting relief on your own. The patient with this pain runs their hand up and down along one side of their low back and says that it hurts there. They often say that they have pain along one side of the low back when they get …
Want to skip ahead?Here’s a link to my post about getting relief on your own. These people complain of a band of pain across the top of their hips. I ask them to be specific. Is it all the way across your hips? Is it a small strip in the middle? There are several patterns …
This is one of several posts about a stiff, fragile low back. A stiff low back is usually a combination of a binding intervertebral joint with more than one muscle involved. If you have a stiff low back, you should compare these posts. Client Description These people complain of stiffness at the base of the spine …
Want to skip ahead?Here’s a link to my post about getting relief on your own. These people complain of sharp pain in the low back that feels like it will “go out,” as well as pain in the sacroiliac joint. This pattern is a combination of trigger points in two different muscles that become activate together. On the …
Want to skip ahead?Here’s a link to my post about getting relief on your own. Tough Getting Up These patients complain of sharp pain across the low back when getting out of bed, out of a car, or standing up from a chair. They may also be slow to rise from a seated position. Stooped Walk People with this condition also tend …
Want to skip ahead?Here’s a link to my post about getting relief on your own. People complain of a stiff and/or painful back, but it is most painful near the fold of the hip in the front. They move stiffly and tend to have other back problems. The low back has flattened, sometimes on just one side. …
Want to skip ahead?Here’s a link to my post about getting relief on your own. These people complain of painful stiffness on rising from a chair or getting out of the car. The longer that they sit, the stiffer they get. They are often stiff in the morning, when rising from bed, but speak of it …
