How does having tight hamstrings, weird arches, or other lower extremity abnormalities affect the back?

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Yes, this is r/oddlysuspicious but im tired, and I this broken down barney style as this is a personal issue and I want to know more.

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Your entire body is basically a system of muscles, ligaments and bones moving as one big machine. It’s through coordination of all those moving parts that the body moves itself, completes actions, takes load, and generally functions the way it should.

When you have those abnormalities- tight muscles, bad arches and such, your body compensates by doing things like limiting range of motion, shifting load off of some muscles and onto others, and more. All of these can cause chain reactions that upset the optimal balance of all their moving parts. In the back, the literal and figurative backbone of the body, this imbalance can lead to muscle strains, soreness, and degeneration of the tissues.

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