Tight hip flexors, especially a deep muscle called the psoas, can silently stress your spine. Here's why this muscle deserves more attention—and how to strengthen it. Lower back pain is often blamed ...

Lie on your back with your knees bent. Place your feet hip-width apart and your arms by your sides. Press your heels into the ...

Lower spine pain can develop due to sprains and strains of muscles or changes to the discs in the lower back. Conditions that affect the facet joints of the vertebrae may also cause lower spine pain.

You may be familiar with that feeling — you stand too quickly or turn too suddenly and feel that slight “tug” in your back. But while a muscle pull may put you out of action for a few days, back pain ...

In the second of a five-part series, Dana Santas shows how building strength in the side abdominal muscles can improve ...

A frequent source of lower-back pain comes from two muscles you might not have heard of—and that makes sense since you rarely see them on those medical posters of human anatomy in doctor's offices.

Running is not typically related to higher-than-usual incidences of lower back pain. However, excessive running without sufficient recovery time, improper running form, and other factors may ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - An aspiring half-marathon runner in Minnesota attributed her unbearable back pain to a two-hour training session. A day later, she was cradling a newborn. Trish Staine, 33, says ...

A nationwide Chinese study found that older adults with sarcopenia, an age-related loss of muscle mass and strength, experience significantly higher rates of lower back pain compared to their peers ...