What are lumbar stabilizers?

National Athletic Trainers' Association

Lumbar stabilizers are the muscles in the low back that help maintain the spine’s curvature. These muscles do not really shorten or lengthen the spine. Rather, they hold the spine in place. An example of a lumbar stabilizer is the quadratus lumborum muscle.

(This answer provided for NATA by the University of Tampa Athletic Training Education Program)

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Your skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles work together to keep your body running like a machine. Within this muscular system there are various parts, from muscle fibers to ligaments. You may know about hamstrings, quadriceps and abdominal muscles, but there hundreds of muscles that move within your body. Some are involuntary, like parts of your digestive system, while you control others whenever you go for a walk or lift weights.

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