Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
There is an easy test to see if your lack of flexibility is contributing to your back or buttock pain. Simply sit in a chair and cross one leg over the other and bend your trunk forward. If this produces some of your pain, there is a high likelihood that improving your muscle flexibility may decrease your pain.
Do this with your other leg and see if there is a difference. If there is a noticeable difference from side to side, it may mean the muscles on your painful side are substantially shorter than the muscles on your non-painful side. If you hurt on both sides, or even your “good” side, this indicates improving your flexibility may reduce your pain.
Next, muscles must have the strength to be able to generate enough force to control our joints. Our gluteal (buttock) muscles must generate force to control our pelvis while standing on one leg. This concept is something we all learned when we were learning to walk. We figured out that if we can stabilize our hip, we can put all of our weight on that one leg. If we stabilized the other hip, we could take another step. By repeating this process, we learned how to walk.