Why Your Back Is Doing a Job It Was Never Meant to Do
The lumbar spine is a load-bearing structure, not a load-moving one. When the deep core muscles, specifically the transversus abdominis and multifidus, fail to activate correctly, the spine stops being a supported column and starts being a crane arm. Every movement, from standing up from a chair to picking up a bag of rice, runs through that crane arm with no counterweight. The result is chronic pain that no amount of rest resolves, because rest doesn't restore muscle activation patterns.
