7 Dec 2025

How the ‘Seated Salsa’ can help relieve lower back pain

From Sunday Morning, 11:30 am on 7 December 2025

An estimated 619 million people around the world suffer from lower back pain. The exercise 'Seated Salsa' is being touted as a miracle movement to ease discomfort. Professor Ben Darlow is based at the department of Primary Health Care at the University of Otago and a musculoskeletal physiotherapy specialist. He joins Jim Mora.

Woman with sciatic nerve pain in her lower back. (Photo by MICROGEN IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO LI / SMD / Science Photo Library via AFP)

Photo: MICROGEN IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO LI