I can pretty much guarantee that if you are reading this then you will have experienced a back spasm at least once. Now it may have been just a warning tightness you felt which subsided fairly quickly or a spasm that stayed and became debilitating. With back pain guidelines hitting the news recently with the latest report from the American College of Physicians (ACP) stating we should try drug free remedies such as heat wraps, exercise, stretching and stress-reduction techniques before reaching for pain killers, I thought you might like to know why your back spasms and why these guidelines are so relevant.
A back spasm will often occur when the deeper underlying layer of muscles are not firing with proper timing and duration. The role of our often smaller and deeper muscles in our back is to stabilize and brace the spine over long periods of time. However, if we under utilize these muscles and leave them under trained without proper conditioning then ultimately they will fatigue...