Is Child's Pose Stretch Making Your Back Pain Worse? (& Sciatica Too) | BISPodcast Ep 44

🎙️ Back Pain and Sciatica: How the Child's Pose Stretch Could Be Making It Worse

Child's pose stretch is commonly recommended if you have back pain or sciatica. It rounds the lower back thereby stretching the muscles and the ligaments on the back of your lower spine. But is this really helpful if you have back pain and sciatica.

Sure, it feels nice when you do the child's pose stretch. But there are many things that feel nice for your back pain or sciatica that are certainly not helpful! And on top of that, is the child's pose really helping your back or is it simply stretching already exhausted low back muscles further?

When you take a step back and examine what the child's pose is doing to the lower back, and review if this is helpful or not given how your back pain or sciatica was caused. We start to see, in the vast majority of cases the child's pose stretch is a waste of time, and in a significant majority, it is detrimental to the resolution of your back injury.

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🗞️ Issue 44 - Back Pain and Sciatica: How the Child's Pose Stretch Could Be Making It Worse
👉 https://backinshapeprogram.com/2023/05/back-pain-and-sciatica-how-the-childs-pose-stretch-could-be-making-it-worse/

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