Jeff Cavaliere

A lot of the times, the back pain that we suffer from in our lives is not surgical.

It doesn't need surgical treatment.

It just needs the right addressing of the muscles that contribute to that or how we allow muscles to get tight that...

that shouldn't get tight if we did four-inch motion on certain exercises, right?

So in particular, I mentioned the glute medius, right?

And the glute medius is a muscle that is going to control hip position, hip movement.

So if it's controlling the position of our hips, that means it's controlling our pelvis.

And if our pelvis is tilted or twisted or forward or backward, obviously the spine is literally adapting to the position of the pelvis beneath it, because it's connected through the sacrum.

How is that not important, right?

So all these muscles that connect to the pelvis that change its position are inadvertently going to change the position of the low back directly to the lumbar spine that is going to likely cause dysfunction down the road if you don't address that.

So it is these little tiny muscles and these little tiny exercises.

So I made a video years ago about an exercise that you could do to help to loosen up

if there was a knot in the glute medius, right, an area of spasm, a localized area of spasm, because when the spasm is there you adjust the way you move, right, you're in pain so you're trying to move around that spasm.

Something as simple as a leg raise down and back while holding down that pressure point on the glute medius helps to alleviate some of that discomfort in that spasm to the point where you can restore normal motion again because you're not avoiding pain,

and all of a sudden the back pain goes away.

There was nothing structurally there.

Fine.

That's a great video.

It helped, I think, 50 million people have seen it.

Yeah.