How your Neck could be related to your Low Back Pain.

This surprises a lot of people.

They come in for low back pain… and we start at the upper neck.

Here’s why:

Your head weighs about 10–12 pounds. When it’s balanced over your spine, everything works efficiently. But when it shifts even slightly forward or sideways, your entire body compensates beneath it.

Think of trying to balance a broom with one finger when the top is slightly heavier on one side than the other.

The handle (your spine) has to work much harder just to keep you standing.

That compensation often shows up as tightness, fatigue, disc related issues, or pain in the low back — even though the problem started higher up.

I’ll often see patients who’ve tried stretching, massage, strengthening… everything focused on the low back.

But the relief doesn’t fully stick until we correct what’s happening at the top.

And when it finally clicks, they usually say something like:

“I didn’t realize how much my whole body was working just to hold my head up.”