Does Your Lower Back Absorb Shock or Take A Beating?
This crossfitter complained of low back pain after 17.1. From watching her box jump landing, it was clear that she needed a shift in her BioKinetic Energy field. Check out the level hips when landing after one session!
The hips and lumbar spine should act as a shock absorber when landing from jumping, running, and even walking. In the before video, you can see her pelvis tilts to the left upon landing, creating intense and damaging forces on the disks of the lower back and associated tissues. From a BKEI assessment, it was determined that her lumbar spine needed more rotational movement to the right. During landing, the healthy lumbar will move into extension to provide shock absorption. In order to extend, the spine also needs to be able to rotate and flex. If it has limited ability to move one or more of the other two planes, it will not be able to move in the third plane, in this case extension. Since this athlete was not able to rotate her lower back to the right, her body compensated over time by tightening up her right quadratic lumborum and obliques. These tight muscles are elevating the pelvis when she jumps. Her body is also compensating by twisting her spine above the lumbar to try to get some shock absorption there, since it can’t get it from the lumbar. After some self corrective movements to mobilize the lumbar to the right, and some soft tissue release of the right QL and obliques, her body is able to efficiently and safely absorb shock and thus allows her pelvis and hips to remain level when landing.
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