Understand your low back pain!

Low back pain can keep you from enjoying life. Most of the clients who seek massage therapy are coming because of low back pain. Our job is to help alive that pain but more importantly it's to help educate the client on why they are experiencing the pain in the first place. Let's dive into this a bit more shall we? Tight hips can lead to an anterior pelvic tilt, which is when the pelvis itself rotates forward causing the lower back to arch. This can put added stress on the lower back muscles and ligaments, leading to pain and discomfort. The hips are really complex and support much of your body's weight and movement. When the hips are tight, they can restrict movement and cause compensatory movements in other areas of the body. Massage therapy is affective in alleviating low back tension because we target the area of the hips using different modalities to loosen the hips therefor taking the stress and load off the low back.