Oxford Back Pain Benefits from Hamstring Stretching and Flexibility
Knees, hips, spine and hamstrings are all linked. When one is weak the others have to pick up the slack. For Oxford back pain patients wanting to relieve and prevent back pain, it’s even more critical to be sure to strengthen everything. Starting with the hamstrings is appropriate as their strength and flexibility is tied to all the rest.
BENEFITS OF HAMSTRING FLEXIBILITY
Bending over to get car keys off the ground is no easy task. Chiropractors warn about the bending, lifting and twisting motions! Bending involves hamstring, knee, hip, and spine assistance. They each need to be individually in terrific shape. They must work together like clockwork. New research stated how hamstring stretching exercises significantly compounded the range of motion of active knee extension. Further, hip flexion was significantly increased by hamstring stretching while lumbar flexion and lumbar spine/hip flexion ratio decreased during repetitive stoop lifting or daily activities. (1) Having flexible hamstrings and hip flexors safeguard the spine while flexing which is beneficial to Oxford back pain sufferers.
HOW BEST TO STRETCH HAMSTRINGS
What is the best way to stretch hamstrings and hip flexors? For healthy young adults, static stretching was shown in one study to be effective in increasing hamstring flexibility. (2) Static and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) stretching are both effective at enhancing hip flexion range of motion. (3) To Satterwhite Chiropractic, doing it in the proper way is key. Stretching is always important. Also, the goals of hamstring stretching are to lengthen the hamstring muscle and as its lumbar flexion range of motion. Seated and standing hamstring stretching with knee extension are equally effective to attain this goal. (4) Hip flexibility after exercise interventions with stretching and/or core endurance both produced increased hip range of motion and lumbar rotation range of motion during hip extension. (5) Notice how everything is connected? Satterwhite Chiropractic does!
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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jasmine Hornberger on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as she presents a patient with spinal stenosis that instigates not only spine pain but hip pain and groin pain,too. She put into action The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management protocols to deliver a pain-relieving treatment plan.
Schedule your next Oxford chiropractic visit with Satterwhite Chiropractic. We will help you find a path to flexible, lengthened hamstrings that supports the knee, hip, and spine so you can pick up anything off the ground that you need.
