Place a rolled up towel or foam roller just above your low back. Place your hands behind your head. Exhale slowly as you allow your spine to arch over top of the foam roller, bringing your head back ...

Below, we present a series of specific stretching exercises for the lower back that you can incorporate into your daily routine. These exercises are ideal whether you suffer from occasional lower ...

Your SI joint, or sacroiliac joint, connects your sacrum (otherwise known as the tailbone) and your illiac, the bone of the ...

Below are Goonan’s favorite basic back strengthening and stretching moves. “They’re safe to do anytime, anywhere, to target stability and mobility,” he says. Each works a different plane of motion — ...

As I'm writing this, I can feel my lower back crying out in pain. Working on a computer all day, all hunched up, is probably ...

6. Shoulder Bridge The shoulder bridge stretch is a take on a classical Pilates exercise that mobilizes the spine and lengthens the muscles along the back to help alleviate tightness and tension.

To do that, she’s come up with seven go-to exercises for balancing, strengthening and stretching the back muscles to encourage better flexibility. So, what is ‘pilates breath’, and how does ...

Again, however, if stretching leads to worse pain or numbness and/or tingling in the extremities, stop performing the exercise and seek medical attention. Sometimes low back pain results from spasms ...

Gradually increase the depth of the stretch over time. Maintain spine flexibility and stretch your obliques and lower back with the side-bend stretch. Stretch slowly, just until you feel a gentle ...