[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

lol. I think people would think they're being punked with hidden cameras. If I wear a stretchy tang suit, people might think I'm trying to challenge someone to a fight with those exercises.

NGL, the Athlean dynamic stretches look like something I will want to look into. I occasionally get serious back pain if I over endure it for months. I have so many things that just are not effective for me like the back stretchers, foam rollers, hard rollers, peanut/lacrosse balls etc. that just mash the muscle but just are not enough to release the tension in the muscle. It's so bad that lying on a hard floor no longer gives relief. I have to use a hard plastic roller hoop and that's still not enough. Massage and chiro help a ton, but they're adjustments, so short term fixes vs long term solution.

A few weeks ago, I did recently end up with a massage therapist that sorta offhandedly said she disagrees my issues are my IT bands (as previously reported by several other physio I no longer go to) and believes my headache and back pain issues are my hip flexors and extensors. If she is correct, this could be a huge chunk of the reason why a lot of what I'm doing didn't seem to work as lots of what I am doing doesn't really address hip flexors/extensors. I'm giving those types of exercises/stretches more emphasis and I'm hoping for the best. I'm pretty desperate to find a proper long term solution that's easier to stick with because the issues can get really, really bad.

Best of luck with this - I had 10 years of debilitating back pain clear up within 2 weeks when I started doing hip flexor/extensor stretches/exercises daily.