Did you know that while you may feel pain in your back, the actual cause of the pain could be the front of your thighs? For example, an imbalance between the muscles of the thighs can pull your pelvis and spine out of position and this dysfunction can quickly cause all sorts of problems. As you can see in the illustration below, back pain begins with muscle imbalances that over time create a dysfunction. Your body is then forced to work each day with this dysfunction and eventually this creates a condition, like a herniated disc for example. Then the condition causes pain and as you know, pain is your body's way of alerting you to a problem that needs to be fixed. just as a light on the dashboard of a car alerts the driver to a problem. Muscle Imbalances Are The "Hidden Cause" of Nearly Every Case of Back Pain and Sciatica. What the heck is a muscle imbalance ...