Have you ever had pain in your lower back… but then, after a little while, your hip starts to hurt or you get pain down your leg too? It can feel like a never-ending cycle—and it’s frustrating when you’re not sure what’s actually causing it. The connection between the lower back, hips and pelvis might hold to key to truly restoring mobility and reducing pain.

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Pain in Your Lower Back, Hips Or Pelvis…

What’s The Connection?

Why Treating One Area Won’t Fix Your Pain!

Have you ever had pain in your lower back… but then, after a little while, your hip starts to hurt or you get pain down your leg too? It can feel like a never-ending cycle—and it’s frustrating when you’re not sure what’s actually causing it.

You’re not alone. The lower back, pelvis, and hips are deeply connected—and dysfunction in one area can easily affect the others. Plus, pain can be referred from one area to another, so you think it is your hip, but it might not be.

Hi I’m Alexis Weidland, osteopath and co-founder of BlossomingMe and Healthy Learning Lounge. Today I’m going to simplify this hip, pelvis, low back connection. Why these areas work together, how pain moves between them, and what this means for your recovery. In the next few weeks, we’ll build on this and provide a few tips to identify where your pain is coming from and some things you can do at home to help you feel better

Why These Three Areas Are So Connected

Let’s start with the basics: Why do the lower back, pelvis, and hips affect each other so much?

• ✔️ Your lower back (lumbar spine) transmits movement to the upper body and absorbs pressure that comes from below as you move as well as from above
• ✔️ Your pelvis is the foundation for stability and for movement. It acts as a bridge between your spine and legs, playing a crucial role in balance, stability and mobility.
• ✔️ Your hips allow the movement that is generated via your muscles and connects directly into your pelvis, influencing position and function of the pelvis and back.

When just one of these areas is out of alignment or not moving properly, the others compensate—which often leads to more pain and dysfunction.

💡Imagine a tripod. If one leg is uneven, the whole thing wobbles. Your back, pelvis, and hips work the same way—if one is off, the other two feel the strain.

This is why back pain doesn’t always mean there’s something wrong with your spine. It could be compensating for strain, instability or dysfunction in your hips or pelvis. While your back may now also need treatment, without dealing with the issue in the hips or pelvis, your back pain won’t fully resolve.

(Not only this, but there are so many nerves, ligaments and tendons in that area that pain can feel like it is coming from 2 places at once; or the tissue itself may be referring pain to another area; or the nerve may also be irritated and sending pain signals in areas that don’t feel connected)

Why Pain Can Be Misleading

Here’s the tricky part: Pain isn’t always where the problem is!

For example, if you have tight hip flexors, your pelvis might tilt forward, which increases strain on your lower back and hamstrings. You may only notice the strain in your low back, not the buttock tension or pull in the hip flexors.

Or if your pelvis is unstable, it can cause SI joint irritation, which might send pain down into your hips or even your legs. You may feel sure that it is your hip that needs replacing. But it is the sacro-iliac joint that is dysfunctional. Causing increase muscle activating in the whole area and irritating your nerves, causing pain into your thighs and legs

💡Have you ever felt pain in your lower back, only to have it disappear and show up in your hip later? Drop a ‘YES’ in the comments if this has happened to you.

Over the Next 3 Videos

So what can you do about it? That’s exactly what I’ll cover in this 4-part video series.“

• ✅ Video 2: How to tell whether your pain is coming from your back, hips, or pelvis.
• ✅ Video 3: Signs and symptoms of dysfunction—and what they mean.
• ✅ Video 4: The best stretches and exercises to help you restore balance and reduce pain.

The aim is to provide you with clarity about the causes of your pain . So that you can find appropriate treatment options and use a few exercises at home, to help rebalance your body, improve your function and reduce your pain

So if you’re tired of feeling stuck and want real solutions, make sure to watch the next video!

👉 “Hit like if this resonates with you, and let me know in the comments—where do YOU feel the most pain: Back, hips, pelvis, or all three?”
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Click the Button Below if you’d like to access our Free Self Test & Symptoms Guide for the Lower Back, Hips & Pelvis

Interested in further reading?

1. The Mayo Clinic – Causes of Hip Pain
2. National Institute of Health – Back Pain
3. The Mayo Clinic- Back Pain
4. The Mayo Clinic – Sciatica
5. Healthline – Lower back vs Hip Pain
6. John Hopkins – What could the Lower Back Pain Be

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.