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Tight Hamstrings and Back Pain

What do tight hamstrings have to do with back pain?
A lot! Your back, especially your lumbar spine (lower back), is designed to be fairly stable. The network of muscles in your core (abdominals and pelvic floor) and surrounding your spine are there to support your torso in an upright position as you walk and run.

We are designed to be on our feet and moving. And that means our hips, where our legs attach to our pelvis/torso, are meant to be flexible and fluid so we can take strides, moving ourselves from one place to another.
But what we typically are doing these days is sitting on our butt, not moving. So our hips (where all of the hamstring muscles connect to the pelvis) get really, really tight.

OK, great. But how do tight hamstrings make my back hurt?
Well, if your back was designed to be stable and strong, and your hips were meant to be flexible and fluid, but the exact opposite has happened instead, you're in real trouble! The thumbnail version of how pain occurs is this:

The tightness of your hamstrings causes your pelvis to be pulled down and away from the lumbar spine, which puts the lower back in a position of instability--the exact opposite of what it needs. Check out the image to the right to see what I mean.
tight hamstrings cause back pain
Once you see these relationships clearly, it's hard to deny how tight hamstrings cause back pain.
So how do I stretch my tight hamstrings?
A huge amount of time is devoted to the proper stretching of the hamstrings in the Hauber Method™ program, especially in Series B.

​Each of the Hauber Method™ workshops, however, contains amazing hip stretches that will give you relief that you have probably never felt before.

And they are always accompanied by the most important exercises to help your core and back muscles fight the good fight against tight hamstrings.

And now, since live workshops remain out of the question, you can learn exactly the right hamstring stretches--and how to do them properly--by scheduling your own personal Hauber Method™ sessions!
Hamstring stretch back pain
"Tight Hamstrings and Back Pain" Written by Sara Hauber.
​First published in 2013; updated and republished November 24, 2020.


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