Trigger Point Release - Quadratus Lumborum 

My partner was nearly incapacitated for a week. Yesterday, she found this video and showed it to me. Using these very clear and straightforward instructions, I got a trigger point to release and was able to stretch the muscle somewhat, and today she's doing really well! Thank you a thousand times for this video, you're our Christmas miracle.

People/doctors like this man from Nat Global campus are HEROS! It takes forever to see a PT these days. Posting free videoslike this shows how there are good Doctors and therapists who truely care about helping folks. THANK YOU!

This is so accurate. This is exactly where I've got pain and it took me a while to find the trigger points but his description is absolutely correct. It's deep, it's sharp and it's excruciating. And I'm walking like that. And can't bend, laugh or sneeze as it's agony.

Thank you so much for this post. I’ve had 4 different PTs and 2 different chiros in the last 7 yrs. None considered QL as a possible source of pain, despite my description of symptoms that match QL issues exactly. All targeted either piriformis or IT bands. None of the exercises or treatments relieved my pain and I got a lot of “oh well, low back pain is very common, hard to treat, etc.” One shot at this trigger point technique and I got immediate relief. I try to do it every day, and the difference is noticeable when I miss.

I literally found out how to solve this issue not too long ago and I'm so glad. Thank God for RU-vid videos and thank God for Dr. Rowe

FINALLY! Someone who knows what they are talking about! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

My tightness is where the QL connects to the pelvis, but direct massage there hasn't helped. I started digging around with my thumb looking for the lateral trigger points you pointed out. I finally hit one and saw stars for a moment. I think it's helping, though!

the best information i have seen on the internet for the QL. Very easy to understand! Thank you very much!

It occurs to me that hanging by your hands, gripping an overhead bar or something, will provide the stretching effect, as much, if not more, than the stretching on the bed by hand. Cumulative hanging, 30 seconds or a minute at a time, 5 - 10 minutes a day will contribute positivity.

Please make more videos! You are great! Thank you

AWESOME demonstration and instruction.

Your presentation style is great! Thank you for very good presentations.

Yes! You describe this pain perfectly! I have suffered for years and have been to the doctor several times thinking I had kidney infections!! the doctor said every time it must be a muscle! No one has helped me except therapists on RU-vid discussing this muscle. I do somatic stretching, rumble roller, and swimming. It has helped but it's so deep that it tightens right back! This has destroyed my hip and I am trying to avoid a replacement.

Wonderful video. Thank you. These are very tricky triggers to treat

Thank you so much for this very detailed explanation of the QL. I just subscribed to your channel 🤩

Thank you for the video, very helpful and much appreciated

Really excellent explanation and therapy! I'm an Acupuncturist and massage therapist. Your teachings and skill are tremendously valuable in helping all those suffering from this pain! Thank you! 😇

Great video, thank you for taking the time and explain it very clear! 🙂

As a sufferer I say 🙏🏻 thank you......

Great video. So clear. Thank you

Ive been out of work over 2 weeks due to this pain. Certain stretches, and noproxen have been helping along w the healing that comes from time.

Good anatomy lesson. The ice is problematic. Ice is simply a pain reliever because it numbs the tissues. It is not recommended however because cold drives blood back toward the heart. In an injury you always want to increase blood flow to the area . Heat brings blood and oxygen to the injured muscle.

Fantastic information! Mark Walker, LMT

Having stiffness in the QL is common especially for cyclists, it tends to be tighter in one side. To prevent this and also to loosen existing cases, I’ve found that distance freestyle swimming works great. Make sure to breathe off both sides and use proper technique and you’ll find the rotation on the long axis is very therapeutic.

Very informative. Thank you.

Tank you so much for the accurance of explanation! 🙏

Omg, after a solid 6 years of lower back and glute pain from years of doing heavy Olympic lifts, squats and deadlifts I gave up physio and chiro because it wasn’t helping! It was the massage therapist that suggested it was the Ql just recently. But this video confirmed that !! I finally found the trigger point that was messing with my lower back and glutes! For me it was the last rib. Once I had a lacrosse ball on that trigger point I could feel the tension just loosening shooting down to my glute !! I will now like and subscribe !!

I love these videos 🙏

An excellent candidate for addressing maladies involved with socially unapproachable areas of the body.

THANK YOU BEST ANSWER BASE OF LOGICAL THINKING CONECTING ALL DOTS BONE MUSLE LIGAMENT

Great instruction. It's taken me months to release the tight banding in this area. Stretching is pretty brutal if you have active trigger points. Easy self treatment while seated is using a golf ball and foam block against the chair.

Thank you great video big fan

i took me a long time to find this muscle as a result of pain in this lower back area, this video is amazing, wish i found this before. Deep exactly where i felt the pain Very deep

Amazing video, thank you!

Thank you for this amazing video. I have been struggling for almost 5years post spinal op with this issue. No doctor or physiotherapist could figure out what was wrong since the pain manifested right above the buttock. I still feel pain when I sneeze. I'm 6'7 so I'm in extreme pain whenever I do menial tasks around the house like wash dishes, vacuum/wash floors or even bathing the dogs. I can finally show my wife and kids - and the doctors - that the pain is real and not just in my head. Thank you.

Great video. I've finally convinced my PT that the QL is the muscle that keeps spasming. Unfortunately i have a bad disc between L3/L4 and even when i doing a simple movement, it can spasm. It locks me down. But through some dry needle therapy, stretching, and some strengthening im getting some relief; not 100%, but am still worried about fascia scar tissue and, whether i should have surgery to mitigate the disc issue. Honestly im torn; surgery sets me back even further, but the spasms aren't stopping. Im considering steroid injections as well. But just wanted to say thanks. I've been an athlete all my life and have always overcome injuries, but this has convinced me i may just have to live with it. Im 64, metabolically healthy, bmi of 17, and hate how this thing makes me feel Old.

Thanks a lot sir

I love this video,

Thought I was passing a kidney stone, having a hernia or an inflamed appendix. Three months later and I now know that this is it. Sleeping on the same side makes it worse on other side. Thanks for the help in understanding.

Four physiotherapists, a couple masseuses, and god knows how much yoga, and I finally managed to nail these bastards down as the origin of my lower back pain from this video...

Omg this video is talking to me. Trying to explain my pain to physio and massage therapist. This is what im sending to them

Thank you, you are the first to talk about these muscles. l have this on my right side and it used to take my breath away at certain movements or just walking and all l had to do was stop and try to control my breathing and just stand still. l finally got over that stage by now l a starting to stretch and l notice when l do any side bend these muscles on my right side are really giving me a hard time to stand up straight after stretching them now l understand. Thank you.

Thanks

Thank you so much. I use a tennis ball to help release my QL

First of all excuse me very much for my English We found this video first this morning and we are very glad and happy, it's simply wonderful! We have one question Have you ever heard, that if for example, on the left side QUADRATUS LUMBORUM has problems it can Sigmoid bent? Thanks for your reply

I have been using a tennis ball. Really helps. I do both sides for balance.

Thanks!

Wow ty so much

Excellent video. I'm trying to work on the trigger points in my own body because I have no friends to help.

I have tightness and and inflamed feeling in this muscle.....I also think it's pulling on the tendon attached to my L1 vertebra as I have pain there at night.

I had a grade 2 QL injury late Jan this year and it still hasn't completely 100% healed despite having physio therapy and rehab. I won't forget that sharp shooting pain, so awful.

The upper trigger point is at the T12.

In the referred pain and symptoms section you didn't actually mention referred pain locations, I feel constant pain at the iliac crest and in the buttock and occasional sharp stab in the QL.

My QL is on fire 😢Thanks for the video 🙏

Very good Working 👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇦

great video, thank so much. awesome detailed anatomy of the muscle fibers, i must have something different though. I don't have any of that severe sharp agonizing pain, i only pain when i sleep, it wakes me up in the middle of the night, one i am up it's not to bad, any suggestions for that? and i can't do that stretch on my self.

I was canoeing with my kids, sittin very low for some extended time.. next day we were hiking and we ate a picnic on some logs in the forest.. after getting up i had pain in my lower back like never before, almost couldnt breathe properly anymore.. suddenly i was a total wreck, after some lying down i managed to ealk back to the car again.. today i was sitting again on a rock for like 20 minutes, after getting up - it was even worse today.. that really feels like hell, we are in vacations in Sweden, bought me a tennisball and will see if u find these triggerpoints - thanks a lot for explanations

Always brllliant

Oh my god. I've had awful pain here for a long time. I was beginning to think I had renal cancer or liver problems.

Excellent explanation. What should be the time for cold and hot pack application.

Instead of using the ice pack, is it possible to use Tiger Balm instead?

What about a raised spot that's palpable in that exact spot and I feel pain when I lay down to sleep on my back 😔

I jumped into a field and hit the ground hard 2 nights ago. Got xray and all good but this is exactly what and where im feeling pain. Its like a dull pain but if i lean 5 degrees sideways i nearly hot the floor fit a sharp severe pain. Il start physio after 72 hours. Does it take long to heal? Im 31 and in fairly good shape

I can assure you if anyone, even my own beloved, senior citizen mother, touched me at either of those points, it would be go time. My response is going to be karate. I tore one of those muscles shoveling as a teenager, and I am so guarded about that part of my body 20+ years later that even I don’t touch it and have learned mostly to keep it entirely stable while moving. About every 3-4 months, I sit or lift wrong for barely a moment, and then it gives me a grueling upper hip or lower rib pain for about 5-7 days. I’d rather have someone hit me in the shin with a baseball bat than brush that spot anything more than very, very lightly.

I have pain under left rib from 6 months doctors gave me vitamins b2 injection still won't go my pain...

This video makes me feel like I'm not insane. No therapist I've seen even considered this condition, but it's exactly what I have. I'm hoping theracane will work.

I have both, gluteus, legs cosix

I have fallen to the ground.

Could you pls explain me more why you used ice pad before heat pad ??

This is exactly what I have...soooo painful.

thank you this is my problem would a massage gun help rossco

I have a sharp pain at my back just below the rib going laterally i try feeling for it and I'm also feeling bone i don't know if it's the tight quadratus or something else

I had Benn around 7years ago lot painful and can't move when having sexo

it is like being constantly pinched and no one can help me.

Is it possible to do stretches by myself? Use cold / heat by myself

Does wearing shoes with thicker heels contribute to this at all?

Can the QL cause irritation of the sciatic nerve? I’ve injured my back 6 months ago and have tried chiropractic, PT, nerve study, MRI, cortisone injection of the SI joint/Piriformis muscle and nothing has helped. Would doing trigger point release, and or stretching improve mobility and reduce sciatic pain?

How often should you do this daily and weekly

Ill also add ice pack

I have a lot of triggers and knots in my right hip, tie, leg due to trauma. I can't release them all by myself, the roll doesn't help...Can shockwave therapy help?

What about red light therapy….

imo wearing a Non stretching belt and jeans (like your subject) causes alot of issues with the lower back.. You need a stretchy waist

Waste of time

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