The Superman exercise targets the lower back, helping to activate the erector spinae—those important muscles that run along your spine, keeping you upright and supporting rotational movements.

PRESENTER:Muscles and bones keep us moving 24 hours-a-day ... In our leg, if the muscle on the back of our thigh contracts and gets shorter, it bends our leg at our knee joint.

Backaches can be a pain at best, and affect your quality of life at worst. We look at the options for managing back pain. Back pain can be debilitating. There are a range of treatment approaches ...

Skeletal muscle is joined to bones. Its cells contract to make bones ... they cannot push, so moving a joint back and forth requires an antagonistic pair, which is just a fancy way of saying ...

The spine (aka backbone) is a linked column of bones running from the head down to the lower back. Bone segments form the column. One bone segment is a vertebra, and multiple bone segments are ...

Medically reviewed by Amy Kwan, PT Your latissimus dorsi (your "lats") is a broad, flat, triangle-shaped muscle that spans ...

Disorders of bones, joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments and bursae lead to musculoskeletal pain. Injuries, infections and degenerative conditions are the causes of such disorders. It limits ...

There are many potential causes of back pain. Back pain may originate in the muscles, bones, or ligaments of the spine. It could also come from the spinal cord and nerves or problems with the ...