How to Alleviate Lower Back Pain While Standing
5 min readApr 8, 2024
If you experience lower back pain when you stand, it might be because of how you hold your body. To feel better, you can try stretching exercises and switch to a firmer mattress for sleeping.
If your lower back hurts, you’re not alone. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke estimates that around 80 percent of adults in the United States experience lower back pain at some point in their lives.
What Causes Lower Back Pain When Standing?
The main reason many people have lower back pain is due to how they stand or walk. When you’re upright and moving, your spine feels more pressure, which can make the muscles in your lower back tighten up and go into spasm, causing pain.
There are a few specific reasons why this happens:
- Strains from overstretching ligaments.
- Sprains from putting too much force on a muscle.
- Spinal stenosis, which is when nerves get pressed due to narrow spaces in the spine.
- Degenerative disc disease, where the discs between your spine bones wear down over time, reducing the space between them and irritating nearby nerves.
