#107 Dr Stuart McGill: Understanding Training with Low Back Pain
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Dave Tate
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🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sam sits down down with Dr. Stuart McGill to talk about all things back pain, how personality impacts recovery and understanding how to ACTUALLY train your core.
Dr. Stuart M. McGill is a former professor at the University of Waterloo, where he was a professor for 30 years. His laboratory and experimental research clinic investigates issues related to the causal mechanisms of back pain, how to rehab back pain and enhance both injury resilience and performance. He has taught thousands of clinicians and practitioners in professional development and continuing education courses around the world and continues as the Chief Scientific Officer for Backfitpro Inc. Difficult back cases are regularly referred to him for consultation.
Dr. McGill's Back Mechanic Book: https://amzn.to/2N1lA9O
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Anyway, yeah, we can talk about your move to Ohio and all of that. |
| 0:04.6 | Well, yeah, I think first and foremost, I wanted to thank you for being on here. |
| 0:09.0 | This is an absolute pleasure, an absolute dream of mine. |
| 0:12.0 | If I told myself just a few years back that I would be in this position having this conversation with you, I would not believe you. |
| 0:20.7 | Well, it's fabulous to see you, Sam. And obviously, |
| 0:26.0 | I can tell by the look in your eyes and the big smile on your face, you're thankful to have |
| 0:32.7 | made the move to Columbus. And good for you. You're making a big difference, by the way. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm trying. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm trying. |
| 0:41.1 | So for those listening to this or watching this, I went through Dr. |
| 0:48.7 | McGill's courses. |
| 0:49.8 | I think when were you in Buffalo or when was the last? |
| 0:53.4 | I, that was obviously pre-COVID, so probably in the neighborhood of three years ago. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.9 | So that was my weekend. |
| 1:02.5 | I was on the wait list, right? |
| 1:05.3 | I was a very last minute entry into the courses for the weekend. |
| 1:13.6 | And that experience, I still tell people this the experience of walking into that room and it was me and another strength coach and it was |
| 1:19.1 | just surrounded by clinicians doctors chiro's PTs and I'm sitting there just completely out of |
| 1:26.9 | my element just horrified because I'm just like, |
| 1:29.7 | what did I just do? I am not in the right place. But by the end of the weekend, I felt so empowered |
| 1:35.7 | to be able to have better conversations and ask better questions and be able to help the athletes |
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