I have this problem too. Seeing a chiropractor will probably help you out a lot and you can also have someone massage your lower back muscles to loosen things up. I would also recommend icing it when it feels stiff or swollen, and after you exercise.

Oh, I'm not alone . The chiropractor can help things out a lot? Yah. Wait, will this problem get worse, will it provide serious medical challenges or will it just be annoying, and do you think it is possible for me to reach my pre-back pain flexibility levels?

It really depends on why you are having the pains. You could have a swollen disk or a malformation in one of the vertebrae that is causing arthritic conditions, or you could just be bending incorrectly and aggravating what would otherwise be a healthy back....

You might also need some calcium magnesium and potassium which help muscles move and develop.

A chiropractor will probably x-ray your back if he thinks it likely there is some deeper problem than just a misalignment. Make sure you do your research and get references for the doctor you see though, because there are many out there that are way too rough and won't help you. Mine is very good.....there are many different methods of chiropractic, so you will have to do a little research on what methods the doctor you find uses.

The only thing I would stay away from is the method of just "moving" as they call it, where they actually snap your bones by moving your body around. That can be uncomfortable and painful. I am not sure what the method mine uses is called, but it is all adjustments with a small "hammering" tool that causes little to no discomfort and you don't have to move at all.

I hope you find a great doc that will help you out. I know how it feels to want to be physically active like you were before and you can't because of pain.

Whoa, haven't visited this forum post in a while! So basically I went to the doctor and now I'm positive I have lumbar lordosis. My doctor says due to the lordosis, my ligaments get injured easily, as a result, the muscles in my lower back go into spasm in order to try and protect the ligaments, causing pain and inflexibility. I currently am attending physical therapy with so far involves loosening up the muscles in my lower back and strengthening the little muscles connecting vertebrae disc to vertebrae disc.

Now my question is, do you think I can grow an inch or two once the lordosis is completely healed? I'm asking this since my back pain started in 9th grade and my growth spurt also seemed to have suddenly ended then. I think there may be a link between the two. My doctor said I was suposed to be between 6 foot and 6 foot 1, I am now about 5 foot 11; could there maybe be a link between lordosis and height?

I really don't advise seing a chiropractor for this. A really good physiotherapist will do a better evaluation of your back and how the muscles work together. You might have a small muscular imbalance and a chiro won't see it nor fix it. The PT will be able to pinpoint the exact muscle that are not working properly and will correct it by giving you exercises.

I had the most painful lordosis and I corrected it in a month with the right PT exercises.

Well, my physical therapist says that I need to:
1. Improve flexibility in my quads, hamstrings, hips, glutes
2. Have her loosen up the tight muscles in my lower back
3. Have me make my inner core stronger and stretch my back out again
Sound about right?

Did you recover from the pain of lumbar lordosis or both the pain and the overcurvature of your back? Cuz I'm totally freaked out by the X-ray pictures my doctor showed me of how unusually curved my lower back is, I'm also really frustrated and upset over the fact that I can't touch my toes (while keeping my legs straight), but I'm hopeful!

I am in my recovery. I started PT treatment a month ago and things are going really well. Mind you, I looked for a good physio for the past 5 years and I just found him. All the others were telling me to improve my flexibility in my hamstring as well...but that wasn't the problem. My real diagnostic was:
1- atrophied tranverse abdominis
2- atrophied multifidus
3- atrophied glutes med on the rigth side

All those were creating my hamstring to work overtime.....and created an anterior rotation of my pelvis. SO the flexibility was not the thing to work on. I have to rebuild my atrophied muscle to gain proper support while my PT works on the muscular imbalance.

Do you trust your PT? Do you feel that he or she is the right person for this?

During my 5 years of trying I never felt I was in good hands. Now I do feel that my current PT is the one that will bring me back to my 100%. All the others were overlooking major things and they were making me do all kinds of exercises that were totally wrong. My hamstring are not tight at all, they just don't work properly because of the atrophied muscles. It can be a vicious circle....

Trust what your instincts tell you!

Well, my transverse abdominis and multifidi are somewhat atrophied according to my therapist. Overall, I trust my therapist since she makes an effort to get to know me as a person and will often ask me the specifics of how I feel. However, I will experience a shooting pain around lumbar vertebrae 4/5 whenever I try to bend down to touch my toes (while keeping my legs straight), my therapist says its an "irritated nerve root" that will go away once my multifidi are strong enough, but I think there may be something more...

Yes, you have to be careful even with the most dedicated therapists. Mine was very dedicated, and I thought he understood my problem, and he was having me do specific exercises to reverese my curve and he pushed me too hard. I ended up getting amenhorrea and gaining about 30 lbs in less than a month. It fixed the problem somewhat, but I had some other issues that he chose to overlook, including the problems that I got as a result of the therapy.