The most common way for Pilates to cause back pain and herniate a disk.
Channel: Synergy+ Physical Therapy & Pilates Studio
Date: 13/10/2023

What is the most common cause of a disk injury? 

It is loaded flection with rotation. Loaded flection is anything in a forward bend or a seated forward bend. Those are the two worst! 

Forward bend with no arm support and a seated forward bend is actually even worse with the legs out in front. If we add that rotation component, we're just asking the disk...    Remember the anatomy, right? We have no ligament that is posterior lateral to block that disk from coming out. So, if I load my body in flection and rotation, the most likely thing for the disk to do is to slide out in that posterior-lateral direction. That's where we are the least stable. 

So that's why that is the most common way to herniate a disk or injure a disk.