Therapeutic Exercise for Lumbopelvic Stabilization

This was an interesting book on motor control for people with low back problems. It was a nice reminder that more is not always better. The take home messages for me were:

"Find and feel" muscles. Think control not strength.

Once you can feel a muscle progress toward standing exercises making sure that CONTROL is maintained. 

To stabilize the spine using the deep abdominals during normal function you only need a contraction that is 10-15% of maximal contraction.

All exercise should be static at first and should be in a comfortable position - if there is an increase in pain compensation is likely to occur. 

It was also very interesting in that a lot of the articles that they referenced came from UVM (a long way away from where the authors live in Australia!). They also noted that in their research that the R abdominals (external obliques) tend to be stronger and more resistant to fatigue that the L abdominals.