Are you looking for ways to relieve your low back pain? Do you suffer from low back stiffness, low back pain, or low back discomfort? This self treatment video coaches you through lumbar spine physical therapy exercises and Pilates exercises for back pain designed to promote spinal mobility and core strengthening for a healthy low back. Combat and prevent common low back issues like lumbar stenosis, lumbar spondylosis, sciatica from the comfort of your home.

The lower back is the foundation of our spine and includes the lumbar spine, sacroiliac joints, and hip joints. This video aims to help you find strength, integrity, and alignment in all of these parts by promoting awareness, internal suspension and suppleness.

Join Esther Smith (Doctor of Physical Therapy) and Eva Kauffman (Master Pilates Instructor) as they educate you on your lower back, and coach you through physical therapy and Pilates exercises designed to decrease low back pain and improve lumbar function. Actively participate in Pilates exercises that help you breathe fully and strategically, mobilize lower back joints, and strengthen your core support.

Recommended for: lower back pain, hip pain, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, lumbar stenosis, lumbar spondylosis, lumbar degenerative joint disease, lumbar degenerative disc disease, lumbar arthritis, sciatica, core muscle weakness, spinal instability

Video Highlights-

Section 1: Education on Your Low Back

• Anatomy of your low back and core/powerhouse explained
• Physical therapy postural exercises: sitting and standing spinal alignment
• Lumbar suspension physical therapy exercises\
• Spinal alignment exercises

Sections 2: Low Back Movement Skills

• Pilates breathing exercises for core integration
• Pilates exercises for pelvis and hip organization

Sections 3: Low Back Mobility

• Pilates exercises for low back pain relief
• Pelvic mobility and low back stabilization exercises
• Exercises for sciatica back pain
• Lower back stretches
• Hip mobility exercises

Section 4: Low Back Strength

• Pilates exercises for core strength
• Pilates exercises for sciatica
• Hip strengthening exercises
• Exercises to strengthen posterior chain
• Core strengthening exercises for low back pain
• Transversus abdominis and multifidus muscle strengthening