How To Lift Things Safely Off The Floor With Back Pain – How To Do The Hip Hinge
The hip hinge movement is one of the movements that you must master if you’re to avoid longer term back pain. Learning to properly isolate the hips from lumbar movements allows you to keep your lumbar spine in its best position as well as your sacroiliac joints more engaged too!
The effectiveness of this movement means that load bearing is done with a more stable supporting structure, and the more this movement become embedded into your subconscious movement patterns, the more robust your lower back will be. Consequently, you’ll find the likelihood fo re-injury reduced too!
The benefits of mastering the hip hinge doesn’t stop there though! By learning to move more specifically, you will also find the specificity of your stretches improves too. You’ll find that targeting your hamstrings when stretching, or your hip flexors improves as well!
What is the common theme here? It’s body control.
Unfortunately due to the way we live nowadays, many of us are wandering around with poor body control, and this then becomes a liability when an injury arises as the instability and lack of purposeful movement creates unforeseen challenges, and unnecessary roadblocks for our recovery.
Whether or not you have back pain right now. Master this hip hinge and you’ll be all the better for it!
