u/davidpaul2001

I’ve recently started doing the 90/90 mobility exercise after seeing a physio for ongoing lower back pain. He said my hamstrings, glutes and hips are all really tight and thinks that’s contributing to my back issues.
When I’m doing the movement, as my right leg rotates back down into external rotation, after a couple of reps my right hip clicks multiple times. It doesn’t hurt at all and actually feels a bit relieving afterwards, but it’s quite noticeable.
The physio didn’t seem concerned about my hip itself, but I’m just wondering if anyone else has experienced this while working on hip mobility. Did it improve as your hips loosened up, or is it just something that happens?

24M - Lower back pain for 5 weeks after sitting in a bad position gaming, anyone experienced this?

Hi everyone,

I’m a 24 year old male and I go to the gym around 5 times a week. Around 5 weeks ago I was sitting on my gaming chair with my legs up for around 2 hours, which caused my lower back to be really rounded/slouched the whole time.

Since then I’ve had ongoing lower back pain. At the start I was also getting pain/tightness around my groin area, but that has mostly gone away now and it’s mainly just my lower back that’s bothering me.

The pain seems very posture/mechanical related:

- Sitting for too long irritates it

- Rounded lower back positions make it worse

- Walking is sometimes okay, sometimes achy

- I noticed one gym machine (seated leg curl) irritated it because my lower back rounded slightly on it

I work an office job so I do sit a lot during the day, but recently I’ve started:

- Stretching daily

- Using lumbar support

- Trying to keep a neutral spine

- Training lighter in the gym

I’m just getting frustrated because it’s been 5 weeks now. Has anyone had something similar from prolonged bad posture/sitting and recovered from it? How long did it take and what helped the most?

Thanks.