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Nuclear magnetic resonance scan, MRI, of the spine.

There are five lumbar vertebrae located in the lower back . They receive the most stress and are the weight bearing portion of the back.

Your lower back is the part of the body designed to support the weight of that bowling-ball rolling around on its atlas and axis vertebrae.

When you keep your head up, you alleviate pressure from your lower back, you relieve your lower spine of some overtime it would otherwise have to put in. If you do yoga, and your yoga instructor reminds you to keep your head up the whole time when doing the Forward Fold until you reach the pose, the reason is to keep pressure off your lower spine.

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