wrote:

My wife is a beginner skater who is pushing a bit too hard to become
an
expert... so she has developed major pain in the lower back after
skiing during the New Years. It goes away when she is warmed up and
skiing, but it always comes back when she is done. Anything like this
happenned to anyone?

One cause of at least minor lower back pain could be a simple case of
tight butt muscles which could hopefully be quickly remedied with
serious and conscientious stretching.

The culprit of some lower back pain is weakness of those small
oblique(?) back muscles. An exercise that some people have found
helpful is simple (but a bit idiotic): get down on your hands and
knees, extend opposite arm and leg, repeat, switch, repear, repeat.
5x10 increased up to 10x20 or 4x50.
Preferably twice a day.


Anders