Ultimately, the source of virtually all non-trauma related lower back pain comes back to weak and imbalanced back muscles. These muscle imbalances occur when certain muscles get overused, causing them to grow stronger and tighter. Other muscles get little exercise and become stretched out of shape and weaker.  

Walk into most chiropractor and physical therapist offices and you’ll often be offered a sheet of back strengthening exercises. That’s a problem. Because in order to prevent lower back pain by strengthening your back muscles you must know which ones are already overly taut and which are weak.  

Correcting muscle imbalances requires stretching.  Lower Back Pain ...Get Facts on Lower Back Pain, Treatments...