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The Long-Forgotten Element of Successful Back Rehab
You won’t feel healthy until you do this!
While quality strategies to mitigate back pain are becoming more and more accessible, there’s one piece that often goes missing. This has caused us to neglect a crucial range of motion along with key muscles leading to plateus in training and chronic pain.
I’m talking about side bending. This position is often vilified for being unsafe and vulnerable, but it’s ironically the exact movement that our tissues need to fully heal from a bout of back pain. If you can add exercises that encourage and resist this action, you’ll be far more robust moving forward.
In this article, we’ll look at 5 different strategies for engaging this movement patterns and the muscles and joints that are involved in the process. If you can implement this routine into your week, you’ll notice a significant shift in low back strength and functionality, along with the speed of overall recovery.
Without further ado, here’s how to get you back to feeling like yourself again!
Bulletproofing the Back Like Never Before
The significance of adding side bending into your routine is that it engages the QL (quadratus lumborum) muscle. The QL acts to move the spinal column…
