Understand that you should progress at your own individual pace, attempting to make gains on a daily and weekly basis to achieve progression in the program with respect to your own individual recovery abilities. Generally, prolonged rest and inactivity will weaken supporting structures. This is important for you to remember as you experience occasional difficulties recovering all of your strength. It is essential that you rest your back enough to let it recover from stress, however that rest needs to be balanced with the exercises to support it. Low back pain can originate from many sources including the vertebrae, discs, facet joints, pelvis, sacrum, muscles, nerves, ligaments, and other connective tissues.
Proper posture can alleviate excessive stress on the above structures.
This exercise program will strive for a balance between strength and flexibility which will encourage proper posture. Your physical therapist will also teach you how to use your body to reduce excessive stress to your back and decrease your chance of re-injuring yourself. Why flexibility and strength are so important To remove abnormal stress from the spine and facilitate proper spinal motion. To allow your legs to work more efficiently. The muscles of the thigh attach on various parts of the pelvis which moves in combination with the low back.