Quote (Forg0tten @ Dec 1 2019 11:46pm)
I wrote a thesis on foamrolling and other myofascial treatments in 2017. Foamrolling had pretty weak evidence :-p But there's always the patient preference so I wouldn't exactly argue against it.
@duffman The absolute beginning, if capable, is walking. Walking is the holy grail for aspecific lower back pains.
A physiotherapist could teach you how to use certain muscles before acting in a way that will stress your back. It's been proven that for people with aspecific lower back pain, the m. transversus abdominis and m. multifidus are often too late in their reflective contraction, which has been suggested to negatively impact the biomechanics of your back during functional movement.
In english, knowing how to use these muscles may help you with your back pain.
As for core-specific exercises, depending on how selective you are with your muscles and where you're at witih what you can do, a simple start would be the bridge pose. You can extend this by stretching one leg during the pose but you have to be absolutely sure that your pose is still straight AF. If the bridge pose is too much, try an exercise in supine position where you would lift one leg and the contralateral arm and repeat this for the other side.
Exercises using a step are closer to functional training. Eventually you'll be doing lunges and squats (without weights, the quality of the performance is much more important).
If the given exercises are too easy/hard, post here again and I'll think of something else.
Rik
Ohhhhh really?
Have a good guide or paper to stretching or particular ones for back / legs?
I am so inflexible it’s disgusting
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