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Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

Whenever you experience an injury or have a niggling pain in your lower back, you probably

decide to completely rest up so that whatever ails you can heal and recover.

But then the pain doesn't go away, so you introduce some light isolation movements,

to help with recovery, but the pain still doesn't go away, so you rest some more and

pretty soon it's been months, even years, you've done anything that resembles real exercise.

My guest today argues that if you want the pain to go away, you gotta get off the barcle

lounger in under a barbell.

His name is Dr. Derr Dien, he's a physical therapist, CrossFit coach, and he's starting

to strength coach.

And today on the show, Derr and I discuss the common myths people have about the safety

of barbell training to my family practitioners and physical therapists contribute to the existence

of those myths.

Derr then explains why strength training is the best tool for rehabbing an injury and why

the reason you have a bad back in the first place is because your back is sufficiently strong.

Derr and I then discuss his overall philosophy and approach for rehabbing patients utilizing

barbell lifts, as well as other physical therapy modalities.

We then get into specific injuries that barbell lifters in owners experience and how to

rehab them.

We inter-conversation discuss the effectiveness of practices like dry needle-in, intellectual

stimulation, and recovery from persistent pains and injuries.

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