If you are suffering with lower back pain which has not been caused from injury or accident, one of the first things we would recommend is to release the hamstrings.

When these muscles at the back of your thighs are tight, they can limit motion in the pelvis. The muscles of the lower back, particularly the erector spinae, must then take on greater responsibility for pelvic motion and become stressed and tight. The result can be low-back pain and decreased range of motion. We are designed to be on our feet and moving! And that means our hips, where are legs attach to our pelvis/torso, are meant to be flexible and fluid so we can take strides, moving ourselves from one place to another. But what we typically are doing these days is sitting on our butt, not moving. So our hips (where all of the hamstring muscles connect to the pelvis) get really, really tight.

So first and foremost, stretch out the hamstrings, ideally with a band so that you can relax your head and neck on the floor and gently pull the band.