Most people stop moving when they start suffering from lower back pain. They assume that they should rest so this way the pain can go away. But resting a toothache doesn't make the toothache go away. You have to go and figure out what's causing the tooth pain to have it fixed.
Similarly with your back, if you hurt your back getting out of the car. It is from being in a sitting position and that turning from a sitting position injured your back. The best thing to do to fix it, is move through some healthy back stretches and exercises to relieve that pain.
Instead, most people figure they better lay down or sit down and rest to try and make their pain go away. While you rest, nothing is moving and nothing is being improved. All that is happening is that the soreness is actually getting worse. So when you do finally move, you have an even harder time moving than before. Much like a rusty hinge, if you let that rusty hinge sit and stay rusty it's going to sit and get stuck. If instead, you adjust the hinge, put some lubrication on the hinge and move the hinge back and forth to keep the hinge moving freely, your hinge will move normally.
Your body is a series of hinges stacked on top of each other, called joints. Each joint needs to remain lubricated and mobile in order to function correctly. Hence the reason you need to practice proper movement patterns. Proper movement patterns help to keep you young, mobile and pain free.
My recommendation to you is to see a professional about improving your movement patterns. That professional will assess where your hinges (joints) are getting stuck and prescribe a workable action plan on how to achieve a healthy moving body without pain.
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