When Rotation Hides in Plain Sight: Why Overhead (Transverse-Plane) Views Matter for Low Back Pain
If you only ever look at posture and movement from the frontal plane, you will routinely miss the very thing that often aggravates the lumbar spine: rotation of the trunk and lumbopelvic girdle in the transverse (horizontal) plane. That blind spot has clinical consequences. A growing body of evidence shows people with low back pain (LBP) commonly display altered lumbopelvic coordination and rotation-related impairments - patterns you simply cannot trust a straight-on camera angle to reveal.