UNIQUE ANDERSON: Hello. My name is Unique Anderson and I'm a certified personal trainer. Now in this clip, we're going to talk about pain in the lower back. What we want to focus on again is not the site. Most of the time, if you have pain on your lower back, there could be dysfunction in your hips or your ankles, and a lot of people don't think about that when they're actually moving. Again, what I showed you before were static stretches. It was a piriformis stretch when I had you on the tree here and you crossed your leg to focus on the stretch here. Now again, you might have extreme pain in your lower back. If you do, you have to seek the medical advice of a physician and then do this next. This is all to keep a healthy working environment for yourself, not just focusing on the things that you can't do but focus on the things that you can do and how you want to improve on them. Also too, you can do things that are called active flexibility to open up, like, movement in the hamstrings. A lot of times, people have tightness or pain in the lower back because they're sedentary, and sedentary meaning that they're sitting a whole lot. They're not ever working. White collar always have their herniated disks and the bulging disks. It's never really the athletes that really get lower back pain unless if it was from like a collision injury like if he was playing football or something like that. The other thing that we're going to do is just to kind of open up your body to open up your hips and your body. You're crossing here and around. What you want to focus on is crossing the body around your body here and opening up your hips. Again, another stretch is an active kick. It's almost like you're doing a pendulum swing. Now you may think these are things that you would do for athletes but what happens is that we forget about how much movement is necessary to living. We think that: Okay, I'm just want to stay on--I'm just going to put icy hot on it or have a pill and lay down, but you don't want to do that. You want to make sure that your body can move to help you with the pain in your lower back. Again, speak to your doc, find out what you need to help you to get through the pain in your lower back, and then add these exercises and flexibility stretches to complement your rehab.
