If you’ve got sciatic pain, or that constant one-sided lower back pain, read this carefully.

Picture an elastic band twisted tight—like a stick.

If you want it to feel soft again, what do you do?

You don’t stretch it and force it to “open”. That’s a silly idea.

You untwist it.

Your lower back is the same.

Your lower back pain is rarely the real problem

Most “lower back pain” isn’t a local back issue. It’s the end-result of lower body rotation.

And rotation always has a cost:

1. Rotation reduces options

Your hip and pelvis lose clean movement paths. Fewer ways to hinge, squat, and transfer force.

2. Reduced options creates stiffness

When the body can’t move well, it tightens up to feel stable. Stiffness is a protection strategy.

3. Stiffness forces compensation

Example: the hip won’t rotate/load properly, so the lumbar spine twists for the hip and guess what, it compresses your nevers and you feel the pain & tingling down the legs

That’s why you’ve rubbed your back, stretched it, had adjustments, tried release work—yet the pain keeps returning.

You’re doing what you did to the elastic band: pulling on the wrong end.

The real key: unwind the rotation

The fix is not “more stretching or more releasing” in the painful place.

The fix is to unwind lower body rotation so the hip complex and lumbar spine stop being squeezed together.

When the cause disappears, the pain doesn’t need to be “managed”.

It naturally fades because the system stops provoking it.

How to unwind lower body rotation

I explain the exact mechanics and the starting steps in a YouTube Video:

Watch: https://youtu.be/z21lP6Dqc-I?si=9MXh1C8CZYU11JOo

Understanding the physics matters more than collecting exercises. If you don’t understand what you’re unwinding, you’ll keep repeating the same loop.