​People dealing with pain in general, not just lower back pain, often move differently as a protective mechanism to limit the onset of additional pain. In doing so, muscles other than the those of the back itself will be affected.

​This protective mechanism may help for a few days or weeks. However, as time goes on it can make things much worse.
It has been shown that the activity of our glutes is commonly reduced in those with chronic lower back pain.

Emphasis on the activity of the glutes during functional movement is therefore a key part of the rehabilitation process. This starts by learning how to properly hip hinge during the squat.

By pushing the hips back at the start of the squat, you effectively engage the glute muscles. A hip hinge is useful not only in the gym, but with functional movements of daily life such as sitting down in a chair or bending over to pick up a heavy box from the ground.

These movements involve squatting, which means we don’t just need to squat ​when we are young and wanting to work out in the gym, we need to be competent in this movement throughout our lives. Therefore we have to do our best to maintain both hip mobility and glute strength as much as possible.

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