Your hips are the command center of your body. If they are tight, weak, or dysfunctional, it doesn't just affect your ability to touch your toes—it sabotages your squats, stalls your running speed, ...

Just living life can feel like backbreaking work sometimes: shoveling snow, lifting a suitcase, assembling furniture. And data show it’s hurting a lot of us: Lower back pain is the leading cause of ...

Water-based exercise not only improved muscle strength in people with chronic low back pain, but it also improved quality of life, according to a new study. Aquatic therapy could be a viable ...

Avoiding low back pain without deliberately and consistently training your deep core muscles is going to be a losing battle. But let’s clarify this right out of the gate: core workouts are not ...

The condition is hard to treat. But moving can help, if you do it right. Ask Well The condition is hard to treat. But moving can help, if you do it right. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times ...

Tight hip flexors, especially a deep muscle called the psoas, can silently stress your spine. Here's why this muscle deserves more attention—and how to strengthen it. Lower back pain is often blamed ...

Ice therapy helps reduce pain and inflammation when back pain first starts. Heat therapy is ideal for relaxing muscles during long-term back pain. You can use ice and heat together, known as contrast ...

The deadlift stands as one of fitness’s most rewarding challenges – a fundamental movement that transforms your entire posterior chain while building functional strength. Yet this compound exercise ...

Like other parts of your body, your muscles change over the years. “As you age, your muscle fibers become less dense, which makes them less flexible and more prone to injury,” says Elizabeth Gardner, ...

In a world of sitting at desks and slumping in front of screens, back pain is known to be the most common ailment among Americans. Dr. Arthur L. Jenkins III, a board-certified neurosurgeon in New York ...