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Floor stretches that have really helped me. I started doing these simple stretches 2 years ago, and they have really helped. Somehow I thought the stretching alone would eliminate my back pain. No way. I needed to build muscles to support my back. But the stretching is very important. I now do many of these stretches using a Pilates Reformer (see part 3 of this series). But you don’t need a Pilates machine to do back stretches. I have other stretches I do, but this video covers the ones I consider to be most important, and that helped me the most in eliminating my low back pain. After 8 years of agonizing back pain, I knew I had to do something, and I wasn’t going to take the surgery or painkiller route. Each of the videos in this series will give another piece of the puzzle. After I added the exercises you’ll see in the other videos to the stretches in this video, it only took me 6 months to eliminate my back pain.

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16 Responses to “ How I Ended My Lower Back Pain – Part 2: Floor Stretches ”

  1. tuya0088
    January 28, 2012 at 2:08 am

    I had lower back surgery last year. But now I can’t sit for long time, very painful and few days ago my right led gets numbness. What should I to do? Give me advise, please!!!

  2. Nhordmyr
    January 28, 2012 at 2:44 am

    Less sitting, more walking. Typical problem of our ages.

  3. swanbria
    January 28, 2012 at 2:44 am

    @Squallzy13 I highly recommend you search Peter Egoscue and read his Book Pain Free. It sounds like you need some passive exercises to balance your muscle skeletal system so they will let go and stop pulling you of position which is causing the pain.

  4. swanbria
    January 28, 2012 at 3:34 am

    This dudes hip angle is not good all. Look how his feet point out. What is he doing? look at some anatomy photos and pay particular attention to the psoas major muscle that connects from the T12 vertebrate to the L5 vertebrate and attaches to the hip. Also look at what muscles are attached to the pelvis.  Things that make you go Hmmm

  5. olgaandsergei
    January 28, 2012 at 3:46 am

    hi people,i wonder how most of you have got bad back at first time?IMy was very healthy,until i went to chiropractor and he hurt my back badly-any body have the same experience ?

  6. dudeslove
    January 28, 2012 at 4:18 am

    your flexing your spine. Those two exercises you showed first, and some of the worst for your back!

  7. Squallzy13
    January 28, 2012 at 4:27 am

    I can’t even do the first stretch my back is so sore :(

  8. Langfuhr
    January 28, 2012 at 4:50 am

    Who stretches in jeans?

  9. TheTrueOfficeFan
    January 28, 2012 at 4:58 am

    Even though these aren’t making the pain go away, it still feels good. How long should it take before the pain is gone

  10. marinababic
    January 28, 2012 at 5:23 am

    Also, make sure while you are doing the exercises on the floor, that your back is pressed against the ground – there shouldn’t be a “whole” between your lumbar back and floor. Notice that you can have this position also by sightly lifting your head.

  11. marinababic
    January 28, 2012 at 5:25 am

    I must point out that my physiotherapist said that lifting both legs while pressing them on the abdomen is for slightly “advanced” muscles. I have been suffering for about a year, and my abs are not in good shape – for those having the simmilar condition, I reccomend lifting one leg at a time.

  12. TheEmperorOfGermany
    January 28, 2012 at 5:25 am

    thanks for posting this Some people are just rude

  13. giodalle
    January 28, 2012 at 5:36 am

    thanks i needed it

  14. TheTrifondaniel
    January 28, 2012 at 6:34 am

    Please ignore the rudeness and vulgarity of the people who posted these messages. I found the video helpful.

  15. DebitPlus
    January 28, 2012 at 7:14 am

    God you really are worthless, you think this is going to help other people? the ‘stretch’ you were doing at 2.30 could be very harmful to someone with a unknown spinal cord damage, imagine if you paralyzed someone you fucking terd. Go die.

  16. jocelyna38
    January 28, 2012 at 7:20 am

    blah blah stop fucking talking and show us…fuck it’s annoying

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