LOWER BACK

It’s estimated that 80% of adults will suffer from lower back pain at some point in their lives. By virtue of being a bipedal hominid (walking upright on two legs), back pain is largely unavoidable.

Technology doesn’t offer much insight into fixing the problem either, unfortunately, since MRI scans of the spines of pain-free patients are largely indistinguishable from those suffering from lower back pain.

Take a more mechanistic approach to the body and tight quads, weak glutes, leg length discrepancies or a weak core are often highlighted as the root cause of lower back pain; even if there’s very little evidence to support this approach as a successful treatment. After all, if curing lower back pain was as simple as stretching your quads, doing planks or wearing corrective orthotics, the statistics would be flipped on their