QL Release: Free the Hidden Muscle Behind One-Sided Back Pain — 10 Minutes a Day at Home
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QL Release: Free the Hidden Muscle Behind One-Sided Back Pain — 10 Minutes a Day at Home

You've been told it's your posture. That sitting all day does it, that everyone your age has a bad back, that you just need to stretch more. So you stretched. You foam-rolled. You saw a physio and got a sheet of exercises. It helped for an hour — then your lower back locked up on the same side again. Here's what nobody checked: a deep muscle called the QL — the hidden twin of the psoas. Sitting locks it short on one side, and stretching never reaches it. QL Release frees that muscle and retrains it through simple ground-based movement. Built by a movement coach who fixes what stretching and PT can't. Just 10 minutes a day. No gym, no equipment, no clinic.

Author: Kevin Dwisandy
12905 Participants
Last Update: July 2026
US $19
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Comments about the course

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    Three years of low back pain, always the same side. Physio gave me stretches that helped for an hour 🚩 Four weeks in and I got up off the floor after playing with the kids without that catch. First time in ages.

    Rachel D., 42
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    I'd never even heard of the QL. Turns out that's the exact muscle locking me up 😮‍💨 The crawling moves felt silly for two days, then my back started letting go. Wish I'd found it before all the money I spent on physio.

    Emma T., 38
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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    I carry my youngest on one hip all day and never connected it to my back 🚩 That side was always locked, and one hip literally sat higher than the other. Both evened out. I feel level again.

    Sophie M., 35
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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    Foam roller, yoga app, stretched every single morning — back still stiff by lunch 😩 The difference is you're not just stretching, you're retraining it. Held all week for the first time.

    Karen R., 47
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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    It's just your age, you sit too much' — that's what I got told at 44 😤 It was never my age. One side was locked and nobody checked it. Ten minutes on the floor and I sleep on that side again.

    Diane M., 44
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
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    Thought this was just what your back does after 50 😮‍💨 It isn't. The right-side ache I'd had for two years is finally quiet. Ten minutes a day on my living room floor. That's it.

    Joanne F., 51
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Course includes

16 video lessons
Unlimited time access to all course materials

It's Not Your Spine. It's the One Muscle Nobody Ever Checked.

Are these familiar?

  • Low back pain that's worse on one side
  • One hip that always sits higher or tighter than the other
  • Your back locks up when you stand out of the car or your desk chair
  • A deep ache on one side that no stretch ever clears
  • Sciatica-like pain when you twist or bend to the side
  • Can't sit through a long drive or a long day at your desk without shifting
  • It flares after a long day on your feet, a workout, or carrying the shopping
  • No comfortable side to sleep on — rolling over wakes you
  • Foam roller, yoga, stretching give you an hour, then it's back
  • A physio gave you exercises — the same side still locks

If three or more are yours, this isn't random back pain. It's one muscle — and it has a reset.

Here's What Nobody Tells You

Most one-sided back pain isn't coming from your spine. It's coming from a muscle you've probably never heard of — the QL. It runs from your bottom rib to the top of your pelvis, one on each side, and its job is to hold you steady. Everyone's heard of the psoas. The QL is its hidden twin — and it's the one actually locking your back.

Sit for eight hours and two things happen at once. The QL gets stuck short on one side. And the glutes that should share the load switch off completely. So one muscle ends up tight and overworked — pulling one side of your back, hiking one hip higher than the other.

That's the loop: sitting shortens the QL → the glutes shut off → one side takes all the load → it locks and aches → you sit back down, and it gets worse.

And here's why stretching never holds. A stretch lengthens the muscle for an hour, but it does nothing about the switched-off glutes or the sitting that caused it. So it re-locks by the afternoon. Foam rolling, yoga, a physio's stretch sheet — they all chase the ache and miss the cause. You're not doing it wrong. You've been aiming at the wrong muscle.

Release the QL, wake the glutes back up, and retrain them to share the load — and your back finally holds. That's what QL Release does.

Finally Get Off the Back-Pain Loop

In just 10 minutes a day with QL Release:

  • Ease the deep ache on the side that's been locked for months
  • Take the pressure off your lower back so long sits stop hurting
  • Release the QL that stretching and foam rolling never reached
  • Wake the switched-off glutes so one side stops carrying everything
  • Ease the pull that keeps hiking one hip higher than the other
  • Stand out of the car or your chair without bracing
  • Sleep on your side again without the roll-over waking you
  • Move, bend, and carry without the same side flaring up
  • Break the sit-lock-ache cycle for good — not just for an hour
  • A method you keep — no gadget, no gym, no monthly clinic bill

Your back isn't worn out, and it isn't your age. One muscle was locked and never released. Now it will be.


How QL Release Works

1. See what's locked. Simple self-checks show which side your QL is stuck on and how it's pulling your back — so you train exactly what needs it. No guessing.

2. Release the QL. Targeted release reaches the deep muscle stretching can't — easing the knot that's been referring pain across your back and into your hip.

3. Wake the glutes back up. Sitting switched them off. Ground-based drills fire them again, so one side stops carrying the whole load.

4. Retrain it on all fours. This is the part stretching can't do. Ground-based, primal movement teaches the QL its real job — stabilising while you move — so the release actually holds.

5. Take the twist out of the load. We ease the side-to-side pull that's been hiking one hip higher, so the load spreads evenly and the QL stops getting overloaded.

6. Lock it in daily. A short 10-minute routine that keeps the QL released, the glutes firing, and your back holding — at home, no equipment.

Why choose this course?

Everyone stretches the back. We release the muscle stretching can't reach — and retrain it to hold.

  • Built around one muscle — the QL — not generic back-pain tips
  • Reaches what stretching, foam rolling, and yoga miss — through ground-based movement, not passive stretches
  • Treats the cause — the locked QL and the switched-off glutes — not just the ache
  • Made by a movement coach who fixes what the PT stretch sheet couldn't
  • 10-minute daily format — no gym, no machine, no clinic
  • Yours to keep — the strength and mobility stay once you've built them
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Academic plan

16 video lessons

Module 1 — See What's Locked & Loosen Up
  • Lesson 1: Why One Side of Your Back Keeps Locking
  • Lesson 2: Loosen the Lower Back: Daily Warm-Up
Module 2 — Release the Locked QL
  • Lesson 1: What's Really Behind One-Sided Back Pain
  • Lesson 2: 5 Moves to Release the QL
Module 3 — Wake Up the Sleeping Glutes
  • Lesson 1: Why Your Glutes Switched Off
  • Lesson 2: Ground Moves to Fire the Glutes
  • Lesson 3: The Crab: Wake the Back of Your Body
  • Lesson 4: Crab Practice: Glutes & Posterior Chain
Module 4 — Retrain It on All Fours
  • Lesson 1: The Lizard: Stabilise the Lower Back
  • Lesson 2: Lizard Practice: Teach the QL to Hold
  • Lesson 3: The Ape: Control Side-to-Side
  • Lesson 4: Ape Practice: Even Out the Load
Module 5 — Level the Hips & Lock It In
  • Lesson 1: Level the Hip That Sits Higher
  • Lesson 2: 3 Moves for Even, Mobile Hips
  • Lesson 3: Wind Down: Keep the QL Released
Bonus — Your Daily 10-Minute Routine
  • The Full QL Release Routine

Meet the course author

Kevin Dwisandy

Meet Your Coach

QL Release was built by Kevin, a movement coach with over 10 years teaching bodyweight mobility and animal-inspired movement — training the body to move the way it did before a chair got in the way.

His method combines strength, flexibility, and play to free stiff hips and relieve back pain — reaching muscles like the QL that passive stretching never touches. A stretch lengthens a muscle for an hour. Ground-based movement retrains it to hold.

He kept meeting the same guy: one-sided back pain, done everything right — stretched, foam-rolled, seen a physio, still locked on the same side. Because the fix they were handed can't reach the QL or wake the glutes that switched off. So he built QL Release to put his method on your living room floor: 10 minutes a day, no gym, no clinic — the crawling, ground-based patterns that release the locked QL, fire the sleeping glutes, and teach your lower back to finally hold.

Movement coach. 10+ years in bodyweight mobility and animal-inspired movement.

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