✅Many of us were taught that specific activation of the transverse abdominus and multifidi are a key component of any back exercise program.✅ Research has challenged this thought.🤔 Is there a time for bracing work?🤔 Where can "core stability" go wrong?🤔 How can you prescribe exercise for back pain in a person-centered way versus allowing biomechanical the ... Show More
Apr 19
What Evidence-Based Practice Gets Wrong | Matt Low
Evidence-based practice has a blind spot: not in the research itself, but in how we rank one form of knowledge above all others. In this episode, I sit down with physiotherapist and PhD candidate Matt Low to unpack what he calls epistemic fluency, the ability to move between diff ... Show More
41m 42s
Apr 2024
Protocols to Strengthen & Pain Proof Your Back
In this episode, I explain how to strengthen and build a stable, pain-free back and how to reduce or eliminate existing back pain. I explain the anatomy and physiology of the spinal cord and vertebrae, intervertebral disks and nerve pathways, and the abdominal and back muscles th ... Show More
2h 3m
Jun 2015
What If Your Pain Wasn’t About Weakness?
<p>You wake up one day with pain in your lower back. Happens to the best of us.</p><p>Popular wisdom says, “oh, you’ve got lower back pain, you need to strengthen your abs to support your back and it’ll go away.” Or you need to strengthen this or that or the other muscle, yo ... Show More
10m 33s
Jul 2021
Ep 85. Training Hard, Exercise Selection, Lower Back Pain, Building Phase.
Today we talk about all things gym and training. This includes; how we handle unsolicited gym advice, how we push for leg days, lower back pain when training core, massage VS exercise rehab, using the smith machine and cardio in a building phase. We love receiving questions from ... Show More
34m 39s
