St Peters Back Pain Benefits from Hamstring Stretching and Flexibility
Hips and knees and hamstrings and spines are all linked. When one hurts the others have to pick up the slack. For St Peters back pain patients wanting to relieve and prevent back pain, it’s extra important to be certain to strengthen everything. Beginning with the hamstrings is a great place as their strength and flexibility is tied to all the rest.
BENEFITS OF HAMSTRING FLEXIBILITY
Bending over to get something off the floor is no easy task. Chiropractors warn about the bending, lifting and twisting motions! Bending requires hamstring, knee, hip, and spine participation. They each need to be individually in great shape. They need to work together like clockwork. New research described how hamstring stretching exercises significantly compounded the range of motion of active knee extension. Further, hip flexion was significantly enhanced by hamstring stretching while lumbar flexion and lumbar spine/hip flexion ratio dropped during recurring stoop lifting or daily activities. (1) Having flexible hamstrings and hip flexors protect the spine while flexing which is helpful to St Peters back pain sufferers.
HOW BEST TO STRETCH HAMSTRINGS
How best to stretch hamstrings and hip flexors? In healthy young adults, static stretching was found in one study to be effective in improving hamstring flexibility. (2) Static and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) stretching are both effective at increasing hip flexion range of motion. (3) To Old Mill Chiropractic, doing it in the proper way is key. Stretching is always key. Further, the goals of hamstring stretching are to lengthen the hamstring muscle as well as its lumbar flexion range of motion. Seated and standing hamstring stretching with knee extension are similarly effective for this goal. (4) Hip flexibility after exercise interventions with stretching and/or core endurance both produced increased hip range of motion and lumbar rotation range of motion during hip extension. (5) Notice how everything is connected? Old Mill Chiropractic does!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jasmine Hornberger on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she presents a patient with spinal stenosis that brings on not only spine pain but hip pain and groin pain as well. She utilized The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management protocols to deliver a pain-relieving treatment plan.
Schedule your next St Peters chiropractic appointment with Old Mill Chiropractic. We will help you discover a path to flexible, lengthened hamstrings that supports the knee, hip, and spine so you can retrieve anything off the floor that you need.
