This Doorway stretch🚪is perfect for stretching the QL muscle in your low back! The QL muscle (Quadratus Lumborum) tends to get tight and short when you sit for long periods mainly because of how we’re positioned when we sit. 🪑When we’re in a chair, our hip flexors are in a constantly flexed, shortened position. This can cause an imbalance because the hip flexors are pulling the front of our pelvis down, while the QL muscle is at the back, trying to support our spine and keep us upright. ⏰ Over
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A lot of people with QL pain or low back tension near their spine end up in a cycle of stretching. They feel that deep, grabby tightness in the side waist, so they do what makes sense: they constantly stretch it. Side bends, child’s pose variations, long holds over a foam roller… feels good in the moment. But then the tightness comes right back. Because a lot of the time, the QL isn’t tight from being “short”… it’s tight because it’s working overtime to stabilize your pelvis and spine. Stretchin
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