Lower back pain and Hip alignment off

[daolord]

There's a not a single person in the world whose alignment will not be "off". I'm not a fan of doctors using Xray to diagnose or explain something. In my opinion, they should only be used to rule in/out a fracture.

In your case, the ab exercises you have been doing might have aggravated your back. What exercises were you doing specifically, and what were you trying to achieve with them?

I would look at your posture from ground up, to look for imbalances that could affect your hip and leg length. For example, an ankle injury could affect your foot posture and cause a functional leg length discrepancy.

From what I recall it got aggravated when I tried doing decline ab crunches. Used to do planks and leg raises and didn’t have any issues doing those exercises. I have also done deadlifts in the past, which may have also affected the issue but I always stretched for 30 mins and used a belt. The only thing I was trying to achieve was a stronger core as I do different workouts throughout the week

[toronto_physio]

I've a pretty good feeling that a declined ab crunch did it. It can make you a better ab cruncher but not improve core stability, if that's what you're going after. The exercises your chiro suggested are good. If you are training for a sport, you'll want to do even more specific exercises.

Also, before doing a deadlift, you should never stretch the back or the hamstrings, but rather do a set of light deadlifts before ramping up.