If you have been suffering from chronic lower back pain, you would feel weak, unsupported and unbalanced.

The lower back is a complex part of the human anatomy. There are many different structures that make up and support the lower back and any number of these structures can be the source of pain for the back pain patient. Find out why its one of the hardest conditions to address.

Lets discuss the best exercises to strengthen your lower back!

The Q.L muscles (quadratus lumborum) are the most common cause or culprit of acute lower back pain.

Almost all back surgery is avoidable providing the underlying cause, not the symptoms of back pain is addressed. Unfortunately, the vast majority of practitioners and modalities do not address the underlying cause leaving the back sufferer with no known solution other than surgery.

You need to take action and address the muscular imbalances to ensure your back and the muscles that support it remain strong and functional

Up to 40% of lower back surgery fails, with some suggesting this figure is higher.

Find out all you need to know about Back Spasms!

As a society we fail to move. From a young age, we are spending vast hours of the day bent over an iphone, ipad or parked at a desk focusing in on the screen of our PC.

You are not alone, hundreds of thousands of people in Australia alone suffer from chronic back pain

Without fail, almost all lower back pain diagnoses focus on the symptoms, which send patients down a treatment path that also focuses on the symptoms never addressing the cause.

The lower back typically goes into spasm as a protective mechanism against further pain or damage to the lower back.

The definition of chronic back pain, is pain or dysfunction that prolongs for a period of 3 continuous months.

There is a lot of confusion inside the health industry as to the differences between various modalities that all claim to assist people suffering from back pain

If the pelvis is tilted forward, one's centre of gravity will be forward of their midline. If their entire upper body was to be forward then that person would walk around with their entire body on the same angle as their pelvic tilt.

Let's look at the most common back pain exercises prescribed by therapists;

The most important factor to note, if your back is not supported, if your pelvis and lumbar spine are not in a neutral position due to poor postural strength and symmetry your back will be under constant load

The body is designed to move, and move in a functional manner. “Use it or lose it” is the best catch phrase to describe why people get muscular weaknesses that result in chronic back pain.

Lower back pain is also known as lumbago. The problem is quite common in the world we live in, and there are several reasons behind its occurrence. Some of the most common reasons are sitting and /or standing in a bad posture, infections, accident or trauma, tumors and degenerative changes in the spine that occurs with age.

Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction or simply SIJ is a disorder in the lower back that refers to, too much motion or too little motion throughout the sacroiliac joint. It is an extremely common condition the plagues many Australians each and every year.

Effective lower back pain treatment leads to what chronic back pain sufferers really want.. And that is a permanent end to their wretched back pain. So much time, effort and money is wasted by health professionals desperately searching for the deadly accurate diagnosis of what is causing the patient's back pain.