11/08/2026
It is not the pain that gets people into my clinic. It is the shuffle.
You sit through a 60 minute meeting. You stand up. And for the first ten steps your hips do not move properly, so you do this stiff little guarded walk to the kitchen and hope nobody is watching.
Then it loosens off and you forget about it until tomorrow.
Here is why that matters. Stiffness without pain is your nervous system doing its job early. It has decided a segment of your low back is not safe to move freely, so it locks it down. Pain is what shows up later when that protection stops being enough.
Most people wait for the pain. The window to sort this out is now, while it is still just annoying.
Comment STIFF if this is your every day and I will send you what to do about it.