Lower Back Pain Massage & Pelvic Alignment RMT in Surrey
Does your lower back hurt while one hip feels tighter, higher, more restricted or simply different from the other side?
People often describe this sensation as their pelvis feeling “out of alignment.” At Therapy Now Wellness Clinic, our Registered Massage Therapists assess the lower back, hips and surrounding soft tissues to understand what may be contributing to your symptoms.
When your lower back hurts, your hips may feel uneven too.
When people search for a pelvic alignment RMT in Surrey, they are often describing a feeling rather than a specific diagnosis. You may feel uneven, shifted, rotated, tight or restricted through the lower back, hips or pelvis.
The lower back, hips and pelvis move together.
Walking, sitting, standing, bending, rotating and lifting all require coordinated movement through the lower back, hips and pelvis. If an area becomes painful, sensitive or stiff, you may naturally move differently.
Muscle Tension
Tension or sensitivity around the lower back or hip region may contribute to a sense of restriction or unevenness.
Movement Changes
Pain may cause you to shift your weight, shorten movements or avoid loading one side.
Hip Stiffness
Restricted hip movement can change how bending, walking or rotating feels.
Injury
An injury may temporarily affect comfort, movement and activity tolerance.
Reduced Activity
Time away from normal activity can influence strength and movement confidence.
Different Movement Strategies
Your body may compensate in ways that make one side feel different from the other.
Your RMT assesses what is relevant to your presentation.
Treatment is not based on a predetermined list of muscles. Your RMT assesses which areas may be relevant to your symptoms and goals.
Quadratus Lumborum
This muscle lies along the posterior abdominal wall and may be considered in some lower-back presentations.
Gluteal Muscles
The gluteal muscles surround the posterior and lateral hip and contribute to hip movement and force production.
Hip Rotators
Muscles around the hip contribute to rotational movement and control.
Lumbar Paraspinals
Muscles along the spine contribute to trunk movement and postural control.
Hip Flexor Region
Muscles crossing the front of the hip may be relevant depending on your symptoms and activity.
Surrounding Soft Tissues
Other tissues around the lower back, hips and pelvis may also be assessed when clinically appropriate.
Start by understanding how your symptoms behave.
An assessment can help your RMT understand where you feel the discomfort, what movements affect it and which tissues may be relevant.
Common concerns include:
- ✓One-sided lower back tightness
- ✓Feeling shifted toward one side
- ✓Pain with bending
- ✓Pain or restriction with rotation
- ✓Stiffness after prolonged sitting
- ✓Glute or hip tension
- ✓Changes after an injury
Massage therapy begins with an assessment.
Where You Feel It
Describe where the discomfort is located and whether it stays local or travels.
When It Started
Your RMT considers whether symptoms developed gradually or followed a specific event.
Aggravating Movements
Bending, rotating, sitting, standing, walking or lifting may affect symptoms differently.
Available Movement
Relevant ranges of movement may be assessed based on your presentation.
Soft-Tissue Tenderness
Your RMT may assess tissues around the lower back, hip and gluteal region.
Health & Injury History
Your health history helps determine whether massage therapy is appropriate and how treatment should be adapted.
Treatment is based on what your assessment shows.
Massage therapy may be incorporated into care for some presentations involving lower-back discomfort. Depending on your assessment and goals, treatment may involve relevant tissues around the lower back, gluteal region, hips, pelvis and surrounding trunk.
We do not promise to “put your pelvis back in place.”
Human bodies naturally have differences from side to side, and appearance alone does not tell us why you are experiencing pain.
If you say “my pelvis feels out of alignment,” we ask:
- ✓What feels different?
- ✓Where do you feel it?
- ✓Which movements reproduce it?
- ✓What feels restricted?
- ✓How is it affecting everyday activities?
Feeling uneven does not automatically identify the cause.
Seeing or feeling that one hip is higher does not by itself explain lower-back pain. Your RMT can assess the broader presentation rather than treating the visual difference alone.
If mobility, strength or stability appears especially relevant, massage therapy may be complemented by kinesiology and active rehabilitation.
Sometimes your goals include more than hands-on treatment.
If you want to work on hip mobility, glute strength, core control, single-leg stability, balance or returning to exercise, kinesiology can focus on active rehabilitation alongside RMT care when appropriate.
Kinesiology may focus on:
- ✓Hip mobility
- ✓Glute strength
- ✓Core & trunk control
- ✓Single-leg stability
- ✓Balance and movement confidence
- ✓Return to activity
Sitting can be one of the times lower-back stiffness becomes noticeable.
Getting Out of a Chair
Your lower back may feel stiff or uncomfortable when first standing.
After Driving
Long periods in the car may make your lower back or hips feel stiff.
End of the Workday
Symptoms may build after prolonged desk or seated work.
Bending After Sitting
Bending or reaching may initially feel more restricted after being seated.
Symptoms can begin during or after a lift.
Sometimes lower-back symptoms appear immediately after lifting. In other cases, stiffness becomes more noticeable later that day or the next morning.
If you have recently injured your lower back, your RMT will consider the history of the injury and your current symptoms before determining whether massage therapy is appropriate.
Did your symptoms begin after a motor vehicle accident?
Therapy Now also provides care for people recovering after motor vehicle accidents. Your treatment pathway may differ depending on your ICBC claim and the services appropriate for you.
Related ICBC resources
Massage therapy is not appropriate for every cause of back pain.
Seek prompt medical assessment if you develop new bowel or bladder changes, numbness around the groin or saddle region, significant or progressive weakness, major trauma, fever with significant back pain, or other symptoms that concern you.
The same search term can describe very different presentations.
Right-Sided Pain
One person may feel symptoms predominantly on one side of the lower back.
Stiffness After Sitting
Another person may mainly notice stiffness when getting up from a chair.
Hip or Glute Tension
Symptoms may include tightness or sensitivity through nearby tissues.
Feeling Uneven
Another person may mainly describe a shifted or uneven feeling while standing or walking.
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Lower back pain & pelvic alignment FAQs.
Can massage therapy help lower back pain?
Can an RMT realign my pelvis?
Why does my pelvis feel out of alignment?
Can tight muscles make my hips feel uneven?
Can an RMT treat the hips and lower back in the same appointment?
Should I choose massage therapy or kinesiology?
Where can I find an RMT for lower back pain in Surrey?
Get assessed close to home.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic provides Registered Massage Therapy for people experiencing lower-back, hip and pelvic-region concerns at 240–13711 72 Avenue in Newton, Surrey.
We welcome patients from Newton, West Newton, Panorama Ridge, Fleetwood, Guildford, Surrey Central, Cloverdale, North Delta and surrounding communities.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic
240–13711 72 Avenue
Surrey, BC V3W 2P2
Newton, Surrey
Lower back or pelvis feeling uneven? Start with an RMT assessment.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic provides Registered Massage Therapy in Surrey for lower-back pain, hip tension and pelvic-region concerns, with treatment personalized to your assessment, comfort and goals.
