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As if lower back pain wasn’t hard enough to get rid of, did you know that where you feel your pain probably isn’t where the problem is (or the source of where your pain is)?  All muscles in the human body have the ability to refer pain. This means that when a muscle is injured, tight, in spasm or congested it will often cause pain far from where the problem is.  And the muscles in the Lower Back are no exception and can certainly have complicated pain referral patterns that can confuse a lot of people, even trained healthcare professionals.

Lower Back pain and stiffness after sitting or bending or going from sitting to standing especially along the lower spine and across the waistline- Common causes: Hip flexor (muscles in the front of the hips) tightness, spasm or strain, especially in the Psoas muscle which attaches to all levels of the Lumbar Spine (lower back), including the intervertebral discs, and runs forward and down along the front portion of the pelvis to attach at the upper groin area.

Once you can identify the true cause of your back pain, then the solutions are much more obvious. And your time spent trying to fix yourself is better utilized and more effective.  Most often treatment for low back pain consists of exercises to help balance muscle imbalances.