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Focusing on spine-supporting muscles during exercise could reduce lower back pain

Targeting exercise to muscles that support and control the spine is an effective way of reducing the pain and disability caused by lower back pain, according to the results of a new Cochrane Review.

Posted 27 January 2016

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