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Can Your Leg Length Can Cause Lower Back Pain?

Do legs cause low back pain?

Legs do cause low back pain when one leg is shorter than the other.  And about 1 out of 10 of us has a difference in leg length.

This is not the only cause but it is a commonly overlooked cause.

I had an elderly client named Bob.  He had lower back pain from the time he was a very young man.  He used to get his children to walk on his back to get the muscle spasms to go away.

Bob had surgery later in life.  That helped some but his leg length difference was so great that, in the xrays, it could be seen that the fusing hardware had broken.

His doctors never looked at his legs as a possible cause of Continue reading Can Your Leg Length Can Cause Lower Back Pain?

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