How Do Tight Hamstrings Cause Back Pain & Sciatica? How to Stretch.
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- "Famous" Physical Therapists Bob Schrupp and Brad Heineck discuss how tight hamstrings can contribute to or even cause back pain and/or sciatica. They will also show you how to lessen the effect of tight hamstrings and how to stretch them. What great fun!
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Omg three years I'm doing all sorts of other stretches for back pain, not even realizing how tight my hamstrings are. Today I realized I can barely bend my leg straight at all, did some stretches after watching this video and for the first time in a long time my back feels better. You guys are lifesavers!!!! My hamstrings have probably been the culprit all this time and I didn't even know it. Going to do this every day from now on and see where it takes me.
@ZashiOX Decent actually! My back pain is still there, but significantly better than it had been. I'm not in serious pain all the time anymore, just if I sit too long or do something it doesn't like. But the general pain from just existing...that's gone.
Me currently. I always knew my hamstrings were tight but I didn't realize it was connected to my lower back pain. I constantly feel like I need to pop something in the back of my knee. It's annoying
Hey its been 9 months how are ya feeling?
Did it take long to improve. Weeks? Months?
I injured my lower back two months ago at work, and i've had some terrible nerve pain every since. It seemed like it was only getting worse as the days went by, and I was going to get an MRI done next week. But I was almost completely pain free today after doing these strceches last night, and this morning. I've done lots of hamstring strceches, but none like this. I can't thank you guys enough....and you guys are the best physical therapist on the internet.. ...God bless....and Jesus Christ can fix a broken heart.
u can't even imagine how much u r helping us...thank u...sir
Cheers for this, I been tryin to find out about "sciatica remedies" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Venayden Wanillian Method - (do a google search ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my partner got excellent success with it.
I figured it out finally! They remind me of Bert and Ernie!
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Well as a child thats not how I saw birth and earnie . Bert was just paticular ...earnie was free spirit. Nowadays everyone is gay.
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Best public service channel on the planet!!!
I absolutely love your videos. I have learned so much. Thank you from Canada!
Thanks again guys ! Your shows are amazing. I never knew tight hams could give you sciatica.
Thanks for the stretches. I will be adding these to my routine.
I have learned so much from you fine gents.
Hope all is well and thanks for making waking enjoyable again.
You two are brilliant. The art is.... inspiring
Fantastic site. I am a PT working in London UK, studying for the NPTE in October. Your videos are helping with my revision. cheers
this is beautiful man i have a tear in my eye bro thanx for the Intel.
i was diagnosed with tight hamstrings just yesterday and then i found your video, very helpful Thank you.
Thank you very much! Because of that explanation I instantly got rid of my lower back pain. Stretching and triggerpoint ball massage. One of the last issues I had, finally solved AND understood. And your intro is awesome!
Thank you, thank you for this video. Love you guys, keep up the good work.
I have been watching your videos for a very long time. Thank you for sharing the knowledge . And yes you are an artist.
Very helpful and informative. I have been doing stretches to loosen my hamstrings apparently ive been doing them all wrong. Rounding my back not having my knee flat. I tried your way I could instantly feel a better stretch.
I have a bulging disc and I couldn't imagine how tight my right side hamstring got extremely painful. Had my first physical therapy session today and what a difference. Thanks for doing these videos they're very helpful
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Very helpful--thanks bob and brad!
I'm hobbling around with a back in spasm due to my tight hamstrings! This is the final straw! I'm going to start being proactive about caring for back by stretching my hamstrings!
Did it help?
Love the videos! Funny and informative.
This is very helpful. Thank you very much.
Wow thanks a lot, this really helps and explains what is going on with the back... I started experiencing extreme back pain and leg pain in my mid 20s.. it's getting worse.. thanks a ton!
The videos are great for instructing me on the lifestyle/behavioral changes I need to make to AT LEAST DON'T MAKE THINGS WORSE and letting me know what I'm doing everyday that I'm not aware may be making things worse and what can I do to make things better
Nice & helpful video
this is a great video. thank you.
I always try to stretch but I couldn't. I thought I was unfit but your video has helped me a lot because I was doing the wrong exercise. You're doing a great job. Thank you the most famous physiotherapist on the internet 🙏🙏
Bone-a-part really helped visualize this. Loved the whole video, as always. Cast this one to our tv, so my husband, who has very tight hamstrings, could watch and learn!
Guys, thank you a lot for sharing your knowledge and experience with people all around the world. Greetings from a Colombian living in China! Cheers :D
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Very informative videos... Thank you from India!!
After sitting down for 9 years due to a very large leg ulcer and several operations grafts in my groin to get blood flow back to my right leg after having cancer in the right leg radiation caused the artery to close stopping blood flow my leg rotted... Now my hamstrings are so tight they are painful if I sit to long and then try to walk. I will be trying these exercises now. Great video thanks.
I have to stretch my hamstrings several times a day. I do them standing. I start with putting my foot on a step, then a little higher (maybe a second step), then to a chair, and my goal is the counter. It's amazing how one thing (like the hamstring affecting the back) affects another in the body. Since my fusion last month, I can't do any exercise until after my three month followup. The muscles on each side of my spine hurt sooo much. I had that pain before the surgery also. I think it's muscle spasms. After standing a very few minutes, those muscles start hurting and continue until I sit or lay down. At least I don't have the pain and numbness and tingling down both legs anymore. 👍🏻
Thanks for the video..great info! 😁
Very well explained
You guys are absolutely brilliant. Your knowledge, Advise and treatment is doctorate level. Keep up ur amazing work you are helping millions.
Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words !
Thank you for this video! I am 2 weeks after TKR and trying to do PT, but hamstrings and a nerve are causing all kinds of problems. I am told to use a large band to pull my toes forward, while in a sitting position. This is so painful, I cannot continue with the rest of the exercises! I will try your suggestions! Thank you!
Great video guys super helpful. My problem is I mostly have tight leg muscles on the outer side of my legs, down the sides of my calf. Not the back of my legs and I tried the hamstring stretch and the pain did not go away. The only time the pain goes is on its own.
Thank you thank you!
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Lol, you guys... great videos. Have to get me one of those ropes to wrap around my foot and hold my leg up straight to stretch the hamstrings. I've used them and they work nicely.
Hello Bob and Brad .Can a tight hamstring actually do help Someone who's got Spondy L5 S1 ?
Thanks for the daily uploads
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very helpful.
omg i've been doing hamstring stretches wrong my whole life!!! i had a personal trainer who always tried to flex my toes towards my head while pushing down and i thought that was just how you did it and it always hurt like hell.... now i know why! Lesson learned! Go from the heel. thanks guys! i've been seeing an osteopath for lower back pain and he's been struggling to find the exact cause because my hips are super flexible, and it only happens when i try and bend with straight legs... to stretch my hamstrings and the pain radiates.... well that makes a whole ton of sense. THANK YOU!
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So I've recently developed sciatica issues for the first time in my life.
I'm the kind of person who obsesses over the how and the why so I've been checking my chair, my shoes, my bed, etc.
Anything I've done recently that may have changed my routine. I workout 3-5 times a week so I'm in pretty good shape.
The issue seemed to come and go and I've managed to keep it from getting really bad by adding lumbar support to my chair and doing yoga for low back every night but it still wont go away completely.
This morning I woke up with some moderate pain again and started going through different movements to see which ones caused the most pain.
Whaddaya know, I can't touch my toes anymore. Matter of fact anything that causes my hams to tighten causes a shooting pain in my sciatica.
After 2-3 weeks of everyone telling me it was probably a herniated disc and I just needed to take NSAIDS and try not to aggravate it , I really wish I had found this video sooner.
I also wish I hadn't stopped my nightly stretching routines. -_-
After about 5 minutes of some gentle ham stretching I can already feel a difference.
Thank you for this video.
Good work Mike, I have had extremely tight hamstrings all my life and never really fixed them, I now have a badly herniated disc and sciatica down my left leg and am on NSAIDS, my effected leg is even tighter than before because my body has been avoiding stretching out my leg to prevent the pain. Please keep on working hard your hamstrings and seating posture, the pain I was in a few months ago was horrendous and I couldn't sit down, only stand or lie on the floor on my front. My sciatica first started about a year ago and I didn't realise what was happening and it only got worse, I only say this to encourage you to start preventing it getting worse so you can avoid my situation. Standing desks and Kneeling chairs might help as well.
I have been feeling backpain from long time. And i just found out. My posture is bad and i have tight hamstring. Will be starting stretching till im better. Thank you for this video. I am now understand why i am experiencing those pain.
How is it now?
How about a video on how tight quads can cause back pain and SI joint pain and how to test, stretch and use a roller on your quads ? I just had a deep massage on my legs, esp the quads and my chronic si joint pain decreased.
Nice guys. Yea, my hammies are very tight and they've been like this for a good part of my life. I'm so used to stretching and working my quads, but never really did the same on the other side. I'm also a little slue footed so I don't know if my lower leg position has something to do with tight hamstrings as well. I've heard putting a pillow between your knees and bending over back straight and trying to straight the knees that way can also stretch the hamstrings somewhat of individuals with slight bow legs.
These guys are really great, tight hams were the cause of my sciatica... I found that out before I saw this video though... but these guys are really great.... but... I cant help think of Bert and Ernie everytime I watch a video of theirs 😃
Love you guys this is very helpful. Grammar police would tell you effect is a noun, affect is a verb.
Hi. Would this help me. I started with pain right hand side low back and now my hamstrings feel tight and tingling in my feet thanks clare
Thanks for Video. My hamstring are very tight after watching this. I suffer from low back pain and keep my back straight so it doesn’t round when I’m in the gym. I still get back pain though even I keep my back straight at all times? Can you still get lower back pain if I keep my back straight at all times but still have tight hamstrings? ( I can only get to about 50/60 degrees with my leg straight) thanks
I am going to take hamstring stretches seriously from now on. I do brisk walking for exercise and I can hardly bend down to tighten my shoelaces when needed! I do have spinal stenosis but I suspect that my hamstrings have a lot to do with the stiffness.
Hi to both, i have a question, i have neen having inflammation in my SI joints for the last 7 years.. i have heard different opinions, one specialist said that i have tight glutes and this is the cause of my SI joint pain.. could you show some stretches for tight glutes? Thank you!
Can strengthening your quads and abdominal muscles help aswell? Because it's a muscle imbalance at the end of the day??
Hi Bob&Brad I'm new to your channel I am 50 yrs from Trinidad I suffer with R/A my left foot instep is swollen and painful so I can't use my feet to do any form of exercise can u help me pls.
Hello I have been having this problem for quite some time and I would really appreciate your help! No one can directly point out what the problem really is and I wanted to see if you guys could figure it out! I have been having this pop in my back for around a year now and it happens every time I take a breath! If I lay down like in my bed I don't have the cracking anymore but when I stand up or sit in a chair it cracks literally one after another when taking breaths! Is their anyway to fix this I am kind of scared what is wrong with me and no one knows what's wrong with me!
maybe worth mention, that if you happen to have tight hamstrings because of anterior pelvis tilt, you wont stretch the hamstrings. But else awesome video !
Lower back pain for awhile, I can't touch my toes without bending my knee, lower back still had a full pain while laying in bed stretched hamstrings and my lower back feels better and straighter
But can the tight hamstring affect the knee.i had been having constant back pain due to a lumbar bulging disc and now after some months it has damaged my meniscus and it's degenerating .I have tight hamstring s as well
What happens if those stretches hurt in your lower back?
Tight hamstring is often weak hamstring.When you stretch tight hamstring you can cause more damage.First you got to strenghten it (so receptors will let you stretch it very easy).
I had S-I joint pain for over 2 years. Stretched my hamstrings every day to 90 degrees laying on back with leg/foot extended vertically to s door frame. Mine never got better. BUT, $$$ Then I watched a video that says if your lower back curves in a little and your butt sticks out a little, you should NOT stretch hamstrings. Strengthen hamstrings YES, but do not stretch. I am cured. No SI joint pain since I STOPPED stretching my hamstrings.
i have Anterior pelvic tilt that increase the lumbar curvature. Other reference said that do not stretch your Hamstring Muscle if you have sway back. i have suffer low back problem even i standing in a long period of time around 15-20 minute. this non localize pain catch the low back and i have to sit down to relieve the pain around 5 minute or less. i have a big belly so that one of the reason i get this problem. Should i stretch my hamstrings?
My physiotherapist has me doing the stretch with the strap. My left leg is tighter than my right but the left side is also where my disc bulges are in my lower back. But oh that stretch hurts. No pain no gain I guess.
Oh and Napoleon Bone Apart. I love it 🤣
I have tight Hamstrings due to spastic diplegia. Can I take Flexeril to help with my stretching exercise.
I’ve got low back pain but I will never not have tight hamstrings
wow, thanks for this. Im only 18 and my hamstrings are about half as flexible as yours
hi! are those hamstring stretches helpful for the back pain or is the McKenzie stretch better?
thank you :)
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How I do I alleviate the back pain once it starts?
This was an eye opener! My question is this: If I test my hamstrings for tightness as shown and I cant hardly bend my ankle (tight gastroc) to put my foot in a 90 degree angle, does that cause back issues?
Either my hams or calves are or both are thigh.
Can a person do a 2 leg hip hinge stretch with flat back as in yoga to safely stretch the hams and protect lower back?
Is downward dog appropriate to safely stretch hams?
No problem. Can you do a video on tight calves and relationship to back issues?
You need to find weak spot on you muscle chain.Your body compensate one or more weakness.Im my case,hamstrings and glutes were dead.
What about if you have anterior pelvic tilt due to tight hip flexors and as a result of that you have tight hamstrings. In that case stretching your hamstrings is not what you want to do
I'm a bit confused right now, I don't wanna end up with neural stretches over my legs and the way I can avoid this is by bending my knee a little and not straighten my leg completely, this takes off tension from the back of my knee and calf and feels better on my hamstring yet you are saying that wouldn't be a good hamstring stretch so which one is it
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Thanks!
Everything is coming together now. I have very tight quads hamstrings and hip flexors smh now I’m having knee pain and lower back pain😩😩😩😩😩
Is it possible to stretch to much and affect the back of your knee?? I was standing and bending at the hips to touch my toes and now my knee is hurting and started to swell as well.
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What if your hamstrings are too tight to get your knee fully extended with the cane or the rubber stretch band? Is it still helping to do it bent?
physicaltherapyvideo Thank you.
At 6:50 i cant even get my let up half that length. I have a bulged disc that always pops in and out i guess? And sometimes im ok and now for example iv been resting for 6 weeks from surgery recovery from a unrelated matter and my flexibility and mobility is completely shot from not being able to exercise. Now im working on releasing all the tight muscles in my upper and lower back and hamstrings before I start to work on situps and improving my core strength because i seriously walk like that skeleton no joke
Hello gentlemen! I have very tight hamstrings and also some mild sciatic pain in the upper side of the right buttock. I cannot raise my streinghened leg too much without feeling some pinching pain in that area. Is it wise to even try these streches?
gigel008 Hi , I've the same problem and I wouldn't do these exercises with straight leg and foot in dorsiflexion or in other words toward you
please someone, my back hurts even by stretching the hams, but only the left leg, I got my left leg longer by 11mm, will I be ok ? or am I simply fucked up bcs of deadlifting with tight hams and one leg longer ?
My hamstrings hurt the next day did I just get a workout?¿
Ok, when squatting down and your back rounds in the bottom what can be tight there?
physicaltherapyvideo what if squatting with a barbell on your back and your low back rounds? This can cause low back injury perhaps
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I can’t bend my leg backwards in any move to put my foot to near my glutes. My hamstrings will cramp up. I am thinking it’s because of tight hamstrings.
How tight hamstrings affect back pain
I have tight hamstrings for years now never really gave it any thought because it was throwing my back out every now and then. And I would get my girlfriend to walk on it and it would pop back in place😊 Now my back goes out so bad I need a chiropractor appointment. 😢 Definitely time to strengthen my hamstrings,glutes and quads? I think 🤔💬. Yes no??
Strengthening anything in your body is never a bad idea!
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Hello please help me this is what my MRI says , Impression Multi level degenerative disease most prominent at l4-l5 and l5-s1. The diffusley bulging dis is in contact with l5 and s1 nerve root on the right and left therefore impingement is not ruled out, there is a severe narrowing of the left more then right neural for amen and mild to moderate central spinal stenosis ........ I am looking for the best excerices for myself because I have a whole slew of problems my legs hurt , sciatica hamstring pulls , numbness etc... sittting is the worst for me by far , i use an inversion table and that seems to help a bit but only short term like 5 minutes
physicaltherapyvideo thank you for your time
physicaltherapyvideo just-watched those videos and ifs funny how you mention laying on your stomach which in fact that is the only position I am comfortable in even when sleeping , my body tends to lean forward when I walk now I know why , riding a bike is the only thing I can do , feeling mild pain . Sitting down is the worse the absolute worse , the pain is very bad in that position.
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I started noticing that my hamstrings were getting really tight when i tried bending at the sink.. Should have seen that as a warning.. Coz soon enough i started having back pain and it continued for over a year, doctors gave vitamins and antacids.. I have no idea why😂.. But it has gone now.. I don't know if it was the meds or the stretching i did tgat helped
That's kinda when i found your channel.. So i guess that was a good thing that came out of all this😂
Why curving your back hurts it?
Pick it up like a deadlift
10:40 listen with your eyes closed
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regular ole Picasso.
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