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What is Active Release Technique?

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Hip Hinge

This is not as much of an exercise as the correct way to rise from a seated position, or to sit from a standing position.  Leaning forward or placing pressure on a leg to stand up places up to 10 times your own body weight of pressure through the intervertebral discs of the low back.  Incorrectly sitting down or standing up causes microscopic damage to the tissues of your low back, which is generally not painful. Doing this incorrectly multiple times each day over multiple years causes microscopic damage to build up and becomes macroscopic (such as muscle strain or disc herniation) this is when you feel pain. This is a process which is very simple to correct by practicing the Hip Hinge.

INCORRECT

Sitting down or getting up this way causes damage to the tissues of your low back

CORRECT

Sitting down or getting up this way takes the strain off your low back.

(similar motion as the ball squat exercise)