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How will stretching my hamstrings help with lower back pain?
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Connected to back: The hamstrings are connected to your pelvis, which is connected to your back. As a result, tight hamstrings pull on your back, causing low back pain. Keeping them stretched and limber can often provide significant relief.
Answered 3/22/2012
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Pelvic postue: They have to do with standing pelvic posture and the more range of motion you get out of your hips the less range you need out of your lumbar spinestretching hip flexors is important to.
Answered 10/4/2016
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Woke up with back pain that is so bad I can barely walk, sit up, or even bend. If I stretch my left leg out the pain in my lower left back starts to hurt. Even my butt area hurts when I sit down. I didn't do anything to hurt it just woke up this way?
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