Can't Stand Up Straight (Fix It with 3 Exercises)

Lots of inactivity after a lower back injury from football

I can’t stand up without holding onto something how can I adjust this exercise to accommodate this

This reason for my back pain is lifting weight in the gym.
Your exercises makes me better

Thank you so much!!! After 2 years of trying everything to get my lower back in order, just 5 mins of hitting the front of my legs with a massage gun and loosing uo those muscles im not walking like a hunched over old man/duck!!!

I don't have weights, so I used my cast iron skillet.😂

Inactivity during the pandemic/fires and menopause led to serious hip arthritis and sarcopenia of legs/glutes. Too weak and painful to climb stairs, sit down, stand up, and kneel. I went from athletic yoga teacher to cane walker in 2 years. To recover, I’ve changed diet and re-started exercise working thru the pain. It’s an uphill effort, but small progress has been made and will hopefully continue. Against orthopedic advice, I cycled to keep joints moving since they were getting too tight from strength training. Stretching helps but strengthening has been most effective in regaining mobility. I have to unlearn all the compensatory movement I developed over time injured. Exercise, anti-inflammatory diet, and focusing on proper movement has been key to getting back to “normal”

After a failed A-Lift

With the weight lifting, remember to flex and extend at the knees.

You leave the breast-bone down and the top by the collar-bones goes up and away from your tail-bone. That way your body gets longer - nice.

Hi, just found your video. I haven’t yet had the opportunity to try any of the exercises, but just reading that there are others out there with the same problem as me helped me a lot. I have had right hip pain for nearly 2 years and last summer the pain left me but I was left with the lost ability to stand up straight. I can no longer make a meal, walk any distance etc. The doctors look at me like I am crazy. Thanks again.

I had ruptured disk in my back and deteriorated ones. I started bending over from pan. I had back surgery and they fused 3 areas and cleaned it out. I did ok, but it has been 5 years and I am again walking hunch back.

Unfortunately I was never able to exercise after this chemo. It's myofascial disorder that causes scar tissue that never goes away and it's so frustrating. I've had it for 30 years now and I'm a mess.

I became chair-bound when I was taking off opioid medicine it really helped me get out and exercise and be pain-free from a long illness do too bad chemo. So I sat in a chair because it was the only time I had no pain. And eventually I could not straighten up no matter how hard I tried.😢

Can cervical spondylosis patients do these exercises?

I first noticed that I had trouble wasn't with standing up it was standing straight and walking straight up. I can no longer hold myself upright when standing or walking. I've been diagnosed with spinal stenosis and degenerated disc disease and arthritis

I must be doing something wrong with the stretching, because I'm only feeling these in my hamstrings. What am I doing wrong?

This so applies to me. However, at 81 i am fairly active, walking, cycling, home gym etc. One of my problems is cramp in my quads. Especially at night. I had no chance of completing this first part. Immediate painful cramp. Will have to work on that first. many thanks.

That's sounds great but I have a high couch and I'm short . any other furniture I can use

I just have a total knee replacement 4 weeks ago so I don't think I can do these

This was so extremely helpful! Ive been completely bent over for two days, heating pad, hot bath with epsom salt, NOTHING was helping! I did these exercises for literally 5 minutes and was able to stand up so much straighter! Not completely up but WAY way better and the pain had lessened somewhat!

What about cervical spine surgery? After I have a very back pain.

Working too much stop stretching bcane sedentary hurts

3 years of painful sciatic nerve pain to where I leaned to one side when walking . And when I finally got rid of it it's hard for me to stand up straight and stand up for a long time.

I am unable to walk straight since 2 months. My late father was bed ridden and I had to feed him for a long period of time sitting on his bed .I had also to lift him from the bed to put him in the wheelchair. Now I am having difficulty to walk straight and also I have this shape pain in the piriformis area ... I have start your exercises today...hope that helps .thank you..😊

excessive pain cant stand up straight after sitting..pain unbearable!

Could someone help? I have a roman bench for hyperextension. However the pad is quite steep making you stand almost straight. But I am still able to bow forward. Would this still be as effective hypertension? Thanks!

O M G!!!!! Since 60's & now the APT Profile as well!!!! O M G!! Not going Out like this!!🥀🥀🥀|!!

I seriously just noticed when I saw security footage of my self 😅... I'm feeling better. Just look old

I'm just 27 years old but i cannot stand up from few days lower back pain is too much, sudden pain when i try to move is unbearable i fell down many times😢

I slept wrong and it’s been like this two days in my right back/hip

Omg thank you so much 🥲

Had my hip dislocate when I was 20 and my back goes out all the time since then. I've a long torso, I'm tall and I'm a face painter. Bad back should be on my resume. Laying here with my back out again.

I have lymphedema and edema in my legs and had wounds and doctors was telling me I had to stay in bed keep them elevated deal rooms which went on for about a year so now for 2 years I lost the strength in my back and legs to even walk where it's totally disabled to me I can't clean house watch dishes can't work anymore had to follow disability and it's been really hard for me that I can't walk I could barely move around a little with a walker but I would like to strengthen my leg and lower back muscles to where I could stand up straight and be able to walk and get around more I don't ever even get to see the light of day outside because I'm just about confined to my bed in my room looking at nothing but walls if I stand longer than 3 minutes my whole body gets so weak it starts shaking and start having pain and my lower back and believe it or not I used to be very active I work 30 years as a CNA in nursing homes and was always on the go hanging with friends are going to the grocery store running errands doing laundry cleaning house I haven't been inside of a grocery store for 2 years now

This video reminds me of my 20s. I used to enjoy sitting by river, smoking crack whilst drawing pictures of turtles

Woah had a terrible back pain after the gym, this really helped relieve it and let me stand up pain free. 💪🔥

When I retired and started sitting on my butt 24/7

Oh and to stop bad habits to bring me back to square one, I put my pad on a higher rolling table, allowing me to follow along even when I have to sit on that couch to watch your videos but now in a much better posture. Just an idea :-)

Finally a video that’s clear, funny, using things most people have, and tadaaa - not for athletes ! Everyone with a back and two legs can do these and work op from there. This is super helpful and the issues themselves are so clearly explained ! Can’t be improved !!

i was playing tennis with my girl without warming up went to the gym to hit legs as i was warming up i got off the machine with a really bad back pain been hurting since

Changing jobs from being active with children to working alone either standing still or sitting was when this started.
I didn’t pay attention to it for years. It improved when I began adding short walks into my schedule. It got worse when I began working from home and stopped taking movement break. Now one hip hurts and hinders walking. I’m also bent at an angle when I walk! I often press my spine flush to a wall to force myself straight.

I am anticipating hip replacement in the next 3 to 6 months with these exercise still be OK for me, I really am having trouble standing up straight, severe pain and lower back.

Suffering for over 10yrs after I see herniated a disc while trying to move a heavy table. I sit for long periods of time for work. I keep ending up with AII after I do housework 😢

Thanks!

30+ years as a massage therapist (bending over...I am tall...with a very deep lumbar curve) unable to stand upright for over a year, until I had to have emergency lumbar fusion surgery. Four months post op, I STILL cannot stand upright but am still VERY restricted on what I can and cannot do (still no BLT). I just started real PT but I will try some of your exercises today to see if they can add to my recovery. Thanks!!!

3 months now, been running heavy equipment for 8 months bouncing around for 15 hrs a day and I have trouble sitting down, standing up, rolling over in bed almost every simple every day task is affected by my back pain. The worst position to be in is laying on my back with my legs straight out it almost puts me in tears. Constantly in pain and to stretch any muscles is nearly impossible, any ideas?

Bro i am 21 . Can't move i am feeling like a cripple.🥲

After doing an overhead press improperly, that exercise putting my leg on the couch and moving my pelvis forward saved my back--THANKS SO MUCH!!

I had gangrene in my foot so the nurse put an enormous bandage on it, which stopped me from walking! Then, I waited 11 months to see a vascular surgeon! And now I can't walk!

Im 37 and I havent recovered from straining my low back 2 years ago by repeatedly lowering my baby into the crib and staying in the bent position as long as I needed to make sure he stayed asleep before removing my hands from underneath him. He was a VERY needy baby and didnt want to be left alone. It didnt hurt while in that position but one night after holding that position longer than usual I could hardly lift the baby or walk the next day. I iced and stretched and with time its gotten better but still flares up especially after standing for long periods or carrying my now toddler. Was thinking abt seeing a Dr but found this video and felt a little relief after trying these stretches. Im hopeful it will continue to help. Thanks