The Biggest Cause of Lower Back Pain - And Its Second Cure!

Can you imagine being able to get out of bed in the morning feeling 100%, yes no more lower back pain to hold you back. Just think of all the things you could do again once your lower back pain had vanished. You would have time to read more...

Wait up, read more, why??

Well if you missed the first part to this article, it would pay to read it first. So go back to the search area and put in "The Biggest Cause of Lower Back Pain... and its' Cure!" to find the first part of this series.

Welcome back...

As I was saying, imagine being free of lower back pain. Being able to go to work pain free, come home pain free, and enjoy life without lower back pain. It is simple and you can have this seemingly unavailable dream.

Firstly you have corrected those pesky weak abdominal muscles, and now you need to release those persistent tight hip flexor muscles. After all they are just as much a cause of your lower back pain as your weak abdominal muscles.

If you don't want to know why these tight muscles cause lower back pain, just skip the next paragraph or two and go straight to how to release them...

The hip flexor muscles attach into the front of your lower spine and then reattach in your hip (where your leg attaches to your pelvis - not the area you call your hip in the side of your lower back). If they tighten they increase the curve of your lower back. This places pressure on your spine and then leads to lower back pain.

The hip flexor muscles are commonly irritated by a few things - performing sit-ups wrong is a good one, especially if you have been doing thousands of them in your aim to get those wash-board abdominals or to remove lower back pain. Sitting too long allows them to contract and shorten, which is the biggest cause today. Most of you reading this are sitting down and possibly have spent a few hours searching the internet already.

The way to release them is easy though. No doubt you will have come across many hip flexor stretches before. You now are sitting in hope that I am going to give you a 'miracle' stretch to remove your tight hip flexors once and for ever. But I'm not...

In fact the way to stretch the hip flexors is the same as always. You kneel on the ground, keep your back straight, have the front leg bent with the foot flat on the ground, and then move your pelvis forward so that you stretch the hip flexor of the back leg. Simple, you see these all the time.

The 'miracle part' is when to stretch. When you stretch, your aim is to release the tight muscle, and most of all keep it relaxed all the time. This way your lower back pain will ease and disappear. To achieve this you need to stretch three times each day...

When you wake up, once in the day and just before bed. The night time stretch is the most important as you stretch then relax the muscle by sleeping. This is the ideal way to train your muscle to stay relaxed. The other most important aspect is how to stretch.

Knowing what to stretch is essential, knowing when to stretch is imperative; knowing how to stretch is the fail-safe.

You are most likely reading this with lower back pain. You want to be able to get out of your chair and enjoy life, free of lower back pain. This is achievable and all you have to do is increase the strength of your abdominal muscles and release the tension in your hip flexors... simple.

Lower back pain can disappear and remain that way. Life becomes the way you always dreamed it would...