If you spend a lot of time sitting at a desk or in a car, and not a lot of time exercising, you’re likely to experience aches and pains in your lower back from time to time.

It may seem like modern life can be incompatible with maintaining a mobile and pain-free body, and you may need to take steps to improve your mobility through stretching and gentle exercises, but it isn’t just a lack of mobility causing your back issues

“Lower back pain often comes from muscle imbalances in the body,” says Shing Yiing Ong, the owner and lead instructor of SHINE Movement Pilates . She says that tight hamstrings, weak glutes and a weak core put extra strain on the lower back, forcing it to shoulder more of the burden of keeping you upright and stable than it can cope with. “Over time, this imbalance

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