If you’ve been struggling with lower back pain, this is for you.
For many, lower back pain is more than just an inconvenience, it’s a daily challenge. Whether you’re trying to keep up with your kids, manage a busy household and work scheduel, or enjoy a peaceful walk, that nagging ache or stiffness in your lower back can hold you back from living the life you want.
But what if your lower back pain isn’t just coming from your back?
The Truth About Lower Back Pain
In this week’s video, I share the surprising connection between your lower back, hips, and pelvis, and how tightness in these areas might be the hidden cause of your pain.
This is important because treating your lower back alone won’t solve the problem if the pain originates elsewhere. Understanding this connection is the first step to finding relief.
In this video:
✅ Discover the connection between your hips and back.
- Why these areas work as a team, and how tightness or misalignment in one can affect the other.
- How tension in your hip flexors or pelvic muscles creates strain that radiates into your back, making everyday movements more difficult.
✅ Explore how emotions and stress are often held in our pelvic area and may be amplifying your physical pain.
✅ Gain insights into freeing up movement and reducing pain.
The video is only 5 minutes, but it could completely change the way you think about your lower back pain.
Let’s take the first step together.
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here it is…
Do you ever feel like your back pain won’t go away no matter what you do?
Does your lower back ache or feel stiff, especially after a long, hard day at work? You might think lower back pain is just a part of life. But what if I told you the problem might be in your hips?
Hello and welcome, I’m Sarah Gowans, Massage and Craniosacral Therapist at BlossomingMe and the Healthy Learning Lounge.
Here, we are a sanctuary. For you to nurture your journey to health, wellbeing, and a positive mindset. We focus on helping you to clear stresses, tensions, and blocks that can hold you back from living your most fulfilling life.
Today, we’re diving deep into five hidden causes of lower back pain, and how your hips might be the culprit. Let’s get started.
Problem number one – Why hip pain occurs?
You know that feeling when you’ve been sitting too long and your hips, feel tight or achy? That’s no coincidence. Hip pain is often caused by weak muscles and restricted movement in our hip joint itself, postural imbalances, or even emotional tension.
Tight or misaligned hips are one of the most common culprits behind lower back pain. Sitting for long periods, like when we’re concentrating hard at the computer, activities like lifting growing children, or even emotional stress, can all cause our hip joints and muscles to tighten, placing extra strain on our lower back. Over time, this tension can create an imbalance in how our hips move. And it’s our lower back that often pays the price.
Problem number two – Can hip pain cause back pain?
Absolutely. You might feel pain that starts in your hips, but it seems to creep into your lower back. That’s because the hips and lower back are so interconnected. They work together like a team, every time you walk, lift, or carry something. You can imagine your hips and lower back as dance partners. When one partner is out of sync, like when your hip joint loses mobility or becomes stiff or weak, your lower back then has to compensate. So when one area is tight, or inflamed, or irritated, it often spreads discomfort to the other.
This creates extra strain in your lower back, which can lead to those nagging aches or sharp twinges we’ve all experienced, and even to chronic pain. This can really wear you down over time. The good news is when you address the hips, you often relieve your back pain as well.
Problem number three – Can hip pain cause sciatica, or pain radiating down the leg?
Yes, it can do that too. Radiating pain often comes from nerve involvement or irritation. Tight muscles in the front of your hip joint might feel like shooting pain into the thigh. Other muscles Like the piriformis, which runs deep into your butt, can compress the sciatic nerve, as well as other nerves.
And this may lead to that familiar shooting pain that many of us call sciatica. This deep pain can radiate from your lower back, all the way down your legs. Sometimes all the way to your toes. And it can make everyday tasks like picking up groceries or getting in and out of the car a real challenge.
This kind of pain can make it hard to distinguish whether the problem is in your hips, your back or your leg. Which is why addressing the root cause is really important.
Problem number four – Unresolved stress, trauma, and emotions
Unresolved stress, trauma, and emotions, like anxiety, are often stored in our pelvic area. This can make physical pain more intense and it’s one of the reasons why you might feel worse on stressful days. Our lower back is more than just a structural part of our body. It’s deeply connected to how we hold and manage our stress.
And problem number five. Where does hip pain start?
Hip pain can start deep in the joint, where you might feel a dull ache in your groin or pelvis. Or it can start in the surrounding muscles, creating discomfort in the outer thigh, or butt. The tricky thing, hip pain often disguises itself as knee or back pain. This can make it easy to misdiagnose or even ignore the pain.
But understanding where it starts in the first place is a step towards our relief.
Studies show that over 80 percent of lower back pain issues are linked to our hips or pelvis. For women, this connection can be even more pronounced, especially after childbirth or during menopause, when changes in our hormones can directly affect our joint stability.
By addressing your mobility and strength you can significantly reduce your lower back pain.
I hope you found value in today’s video, and if you did, please like and share it. And follow us here on our Blossoming Me YouTube channel, for more tips on how to ease pain and improve your wellbeing. And join us next time for more tips to nurture your health, well being, and positive mindset.
From my heart to your heart.
Namaste.
To support your healing journey further, I’ve created a FREE eGuide “Chronic Pain Guidebook”, designed to help you relieve YOUR chronic lower back and hip pain.
Download your copy in the link below!
Namaste,
Sarah xx
At Blossoming Me, we’ve worked with so many people who feel stuck in cycles of pain and frustration. But the key to lasting relief often starts with understanding your body, not just where you hurt, but why.
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Interested in further reading?
Relaxation Revolution: The Secret to Alleviating Lower Back Pain and Enhancing Your Well-being
Are Tight Hip Flexors Causing Your Lower Back Pain?
Beyond the Ache: The Amazing Link Between Fascia, Pain, and Emotional Well-being
Back to Balance: Clearing Lower Back Pain by Balancing Your Kidney Meridian
About Blossoming Me
BlossomingMe offers a fully integrated approach to your wellbeing. Located on Sydney’s Upper North Shore. Sarah is our Cranio-sacral and Remedial Massage Therapist and health and lifestyle coach. She can help relieve those problematic knots, tightness and other specific ailments to promote a healthy recovery. These complementary massage therapies can be combined to suit your needs, and include: craniosacral therapy, shiatsu, acupressure, reiki, remedial, swedish, and body-mind-massage.
Our qualified Osteopath, Alexis, offers a drug free, minimally invasive, “hands on” treatment focusing on the musculoskeletal system with its associated muscles, tendons, ligaments, membranes, bones and joints. Alexis takes a functional approach. This means that she focuses on the way a component (body part, tissue or group of tissues) performs its role, as well as the way the body works, performs and integrates as a whole. Our team can support you to improve your posture and therefore your overall health.
ional advice or care. Please seek the advice of a qualified health professional before you make any changes to your health regime, before dealing with new symptoms, and, if something you have read here has raised any questions or concerns regarding your situation.