What is Spinal Articulation? - and why is it important for low back pain?

Spinal articulation is the ability to move the spine sequentially,  bone by bone, from the coccyx (butt) all the way to the head or from the head all the way to the coccyx (butt).
Effective spinal articulation demands ultimate muscle control, especially from the deep spinal stabilizers, which are the tiny muscles deep and close to the vertebrae column. 

As each individual vertebrae articulates, these small muscles are activated. This is important, because research shows that very often with low back pain these small muscles are dormant and the global stabilizers (erector spinae muscles) become overactive.
When this happens you start to feel those long erector spinae muscles becoming tight, overdeveloped, and eventually painful. When you incorporate spinal articulation into your workouts you reawaken the small multifidi, which allow those long, bigger erector spinae muscles to relax. The outcome: your pain disappears. ​