12/09/2025
📌The Transverse Abdominis + Multifidus — The REAL Missing Link in Chronic Low Back Pain Relief
Chronic low back pain is one of the most common conditions I see, and for so many people, the reason nothing has worked is simple:
==>Their deep core stabilizers — the transverse abdominis (TA) and multifidus — are not activating.
You can stretch. You can strengthen. You can foam roll, walk, plank, and “build your core.”
But unless these two deep stabilizing muscles fire correctly, your spine cannot stay supported… and pain keeps coming back.
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🔹 Meet Your Transverse Abdominis (TA): The Deep Abdominal Muscle That Ignites Stabilization of Your Spine
The TA wraps around your midsection like a natural corset. Its job: Ignite spinal stability, reduce low back strain, and support every movement you make.
When the TA doesn’t activate on time, the low back is left unsupported and becomes at risk for injury and persistent pain.
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🔹 Meet Your Multifidus: The #1 Muscle for Segmental Spinal Stability
The multifidus muscles line the spine from the neck to the sacrum. They keep each vertebra stable and protected as we go about our day.
When these muscles shut down — often after injury, surgery or even one episode of low back pain — the low back is left unstable and unsupported, leading to chronic, recurring low back pain.
This is the hidden cause behind so many back pain cases.
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🔍 Why These Two Muscles Matter
Most traditional core exercises don’t retrain the TA and multifidus. That’s why pain often becomes chronic and persistent.
However, when you retrain these deep stabilizers to activate together, spine stability increases, pain decreases, posture improves, movement improves, and the body feels supported from the inside out.
This is the foundation of the work I’ve done for 29 years — and the reason my Suck It In method works so quickly, even when everything else has failed.
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✔️ Physical Therapy Helps To:
• Identify weak or delayed deep core activation • Retrain TA and multifidus firing patterns • Improve lumbar alignment and movement efficiency • Strengthen the entire core system for long-term pain relief • Restore confidence in movement so you can live pain-free
If you’ve tried everything and still have low back pain, this is your turning point — because targeting the deep local stabilizers changes everything.
Let's start this conversation!!!
With Aloha,
Your Virtual Physical Therapist, Christine
