Back pain can range from a muscle aching to a shooting, burning or stabbing sensation. In addition, the pain may radiate down your leg or worsen with bending, twisting, lifting, standing or walking.

For the low back and the gluteal muscles of the bum, this is a super exercise. I started developing this exercise when I watched my two year old, who could sit and squat for hours on a time. And what’s happened in our society is we’ve lost the ability to put our pelvis into a proper position, and this motion can really help you get back to that position again and in the begining you’re going to be forced to have to hang onto some dumbbells like I was. Local Athletic Therapist

But about three to six weeks, six months, however long it takes, you can hang onto those dumbbells for, but then you start to develop is this position where you can start to come up and you can start to use your large muscles in the bum and you can start to really get into a nice squat position.

What I have a tendency to do is put my arms on the inside of my knees and just gently push in. That helps fire up the psoas muscle that connects to the low back and then I can sit there for a period of time. Local Personal Trainer  

Often seeing a family doctor  for a referral to a physiotherapist in conjunction with acupuncture or massage therapy is a great option in conjunction with Smart Food Now and exercise. 

I started with you know, five, ten seconds, and now I’ve built up to 30 seconds to a minute. What you want to be really thinking about is how do I get my pressure off of the knee, get it into the large bum muscles, and then how do I stretch out my low back? Local Kinesiologist 

It’s a really good exercise for lengthening the lumbar. You’ll find that when all the weight is now in your leg and in your bum, a lot of the pressure goes off of your knees. Health Talk

Presenter: Mr. Jackson Sayers, Kinesiologist, Vancouver, BC

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Another variation on the advanced motion is simply to put a Swiss ball between your legs. What it will do is it will actually fire up the psoas muscle, which starts in the low back and ends up on the groin, and when you’re trying to strengthen the low back it’s really important to try and activate the groin. They really work as a pair together, so get yourself into that squat position.

Often seeing a family doctor  for a referral to a physiotherapist in conjunction with acupuncture or massage therapy is a great option in conjunction with Smart Food Now and exercise. 

Hang onto your lats, and come back down, hold, you’ll feel it very much in the low back and the groin. Come back up, go back down. Make sure our parameters in the squat are always still there and come back up, repetitions, 10 to 15.

Presenter: Mr. Jackson Sayers, Kinesiologist, Vancouver, BC

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