The Root Cause Of Back Pain Decreasing Your Lifespan - Fix This To Stay Young

The Root Cause Of Back Pain Decreasing Your Lifespan - Fix This To Stay Young | Dr. Stuart McGill

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3 ай бұрын

Back pain is a common affliction exacerbated by our modern and sedentary lifestyles. This discomfort frequently hinders work and daily activities. Our guest today delves into the back's anatomy, identifying movements-or lack thereof-that contribute to pain and discussing factors contributing to its increasing prevalence.
Today, on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru and Dr. Stuart McGill delve deep into back pain. Dr. McGill shares insights into why back pain is so prevalent, dispels myths surrounding it, and discusses the types of repetitive stress and strain that can lead to chronic pain. He also outlines his approach to treating back pain and highlights the limitations clinicians face in treating their patients.
Dr. Stuart McGill is a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo and the chief scientific officer at Backfitpro Inc. McGill has written more than 300 scientific publications on the topics of lumbar function, low back injury mechanisms, investigation of tissue loading during rehabilitation programs, and the formulation of work-related injury avoidance strategies. He has received several awards for his work, including the Volvo Bioengineering Award for Low Back Pain Research from Sweden.
In this episode, Dhru and Dr. McGill dive into:
-The prevalence of back pain
-Drivers of back pain in our modern world
-Repetitive stress and strain that leads to back pain
-Types of training and how to choose what is best
-Dr. McGill’s origin story
-The myth of non-specific back pain
-How to find an appropriate clinician
-The Big Three principles to prevent back pain
-Ancestors ability to engage in a variety of movements
-Training in cycles
-Advice for Dhru’s pain
-Dr. McGill’s Seven-Day Approach
-Strengthen what is weak and stretch what is tight
Also mentioned in this episode:
-Dr. McGill’s book, Back Mechanic: a.co/d/c2jFsbO
-Dr. McGill's Website: www.backfitpro.com/
-Spine Models: dynamicdiscdesigns.com/
For more on Dr. McGill:
-Instagram: backfitpro...
-Website: www.backfitpro.com/
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@DhruPurohit

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@dr.samierasadoonalhassani2669

Prevention is better than cure. Hip replacement is common in the West because they don’t squat to do work like cooking, cleaning floors, washing clothes and making bread as in our Babylonian culture and Eastern toilets we squat. My present to my Western friends men and women is teach them to squat . It was difficult but then they learned and can do it. I am amazed at such good great professor to miss the point of other traditional cultures squatting, stretching yoga , Pilates. We are what we move and we are how we sleep, how be natural, and what eat ate and community talking to other human . I

@Jaszmind777

I love McGill but this is the most discombobulated monologue ever. How can someone talk about everything and yet talk about nothing at the same time

@margaretmoffor3456

My chronic back pain/ degenerative disc disease at the age of 25 was due to my diet, no exercise could make it better. Once I changed my diet to low carb animal based my back pain went away

@dr.samierasadoonalhassani2669

Look after your spines on daily basis as you work on your teeth.( A-German saying).

@mnb3566 19 сағат бұрын

This is great information but it is also somewhat overwhelming and depressing because it seems to be impossible to find a doctor or anyone that will search for the root cause of back pain. They just want to treat the symptoms with meds, or random physical therapy, or worse recommend a random surgery that they “think” or “guess” it will help relieve the pain.

@littlebeebs1

LMAO ! I cracked up when Dr McGill said “ Splitting your firewood or whatever you boys in LA do “ , then he laughed. I can’t imagine city boys splitting wood all day 🤣. It was cute. I’m sure those LA boys live at the gym tho . I’m more likely to hurt my back lifting wood for work or gardening. I miss my gardening. Can’t do it without hurting myself now . 💔. Not yet anyway. I’m hoping I can once I get rehabbed with his exercises. Thank you so much for this 🤗

@dr.samierasadoonalhassani2669

Great topic hope it will be great discussion.I got hold of this podcast16 minutes after uploading. Good start direct no waste of time focused but hope host will practice silence and let guest to shine.

@thecreationstationstudiose7907 3 сағат бұрын

Love this gentleman’s energy and articulation. Great stuff!

@mnb3566 19 сағат бұрын

I have severe lumbar formainal stenosis. At this point of my condition will any of this information or actions (modifying my actions) do anything to help relieve my pain? Or is surgical relief needed and then start living the way discussed in this content to keep away further degeneration and pain?

@littlebeebs1

@Dynamicdiscdesigns

Thank you for mentioning and using our dynamic spine models to help educate people about the root causes of back pain. This is a great, detailed discussion.😄

@triciawade1640

You are absolutely my favorite! Thank you for your podcasts. So informative. This was another excellent one!

@SpiritSunGazer

Much gratitude for this insightful informative topic..May we each use our sovereignty and power to care, respect, and use our physical form in ways which enable longevity and grace of movement as long as we are in our human bodies. Definitely agree with mixing up routines and methods for functional motion…this is life🙏🏼. Bless you both🙏🏼❤️🐲🌈🦋🦄🧜🏻‍♀️🧚🏻🐊

@dr.samierasadoonalhassani2669

Fasting, no alcohol, no smoking, no laziness. All elderly learners helplessness. Rich in Arab gulf consider movement is taboo but servants home careers are healthier than their unhealthy bosses. These simple workers continue to eat their traditional foods and don’t eat the poison called foods in Middle East where obesity and diabetes type 2 is the the worst even worse than USA . Damage health and education of a nation you damage that country and control it to steel its natural resources.😊