If you have chronic back pain and you go to a yoga teacher, he or she is very likely

to give you three stretches, three yoga poses.

If you go to a physiotherapist, he or she might have you doing three or so poses on a

boastsuit ball, balancing poses, functional movements.

If you go to a personal trainer, they'll probably get you doing some resistance training.

A couple of poses, three poses, perhaps to build strength.

The question is, who is right?

The flexibility, the balance, the strength, and the answer is yes, they're all right.

And this is one of the challenges of healing injuries.

Usually the thing that caused the injury, the lower back bulging disc, the torn meniscus,

the rotator cuff tear, is multifactorial, and the solution is almost always multifaceted

as well.

It needs to be often a combination of strength and flexibility and balance practices.

And what that means is your healing journey is probably going to be longer than you thought,

unfortunately.

But the good news is that you can often get yourself back to not just your previous

state of function, but in many cases, people can actually get back to a place where they

have greater strength, stability, and mobility.

If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show.

I'm a yoga teacher, a trainer, a serial entrepreneur.

First and foremost, I'm a student and I like to learn things.

So I go into the world and I find people who are researching, writing, working with people,

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