When a patient presents to our office with lower back pain, often times the cause is not an old injury, getting older, or just bad posture; more often than you think the root cause is improper foot mechanics. Foot mechanics is a fancy way of describing what happens to the foot while a person is walking/running, and how that force is either absorbed by the arch in your foot, or other structures in the body.

The knees and hips take their fair share of force, but those areas connect ultimately to the pelvis and lower back. If you think logically, the force of striking the ground has to go somewhere. By carefully evaluating the foot and its arches, astute practitioners can gain valuable insight on less obvious causes of lower back pain.

Unfortunately, more times than not, many health care providers will not take the time to delve into all the factors that cause chronic pain in a patient, which leads the patient to return for more visits, spend more time/money without any lasting relief. What usually happens is a trial of care is performed without results, and then the patient looks elsewhere for relief.