There are times when the conventional wisdom and the reality of the situation are at odds.

Our recent presidential election provides a poignant example, as does the idea that running makes you skinny,

that little kids always tell the truth, and that we have to pass another law so you'll stop doing things we don't like. Here's another one. Your back hurts, so you have to pass another law so you'll stop doing things we don't like.

Here's another one.

Your back hurts so you have to rest it, stretch it, go to the chiropractor for 30 visits,

and then get your core stronger with sit-ups and various odd-looking movements performed

on a balance bowl, and if that doesn't work,

surgery will. The reality is that your back hurts because you are a bipedal, upright, human,

over the age of 30. You can't alter this fact, and the best way to make it stop hurting is to make

it stronger with squats and

and dead lefts that lesson barbell squats for low back in chronic pain sounds like the stupidest

idea that has ever appeared in print or in this case on an audio book I know it flies in

the face of the conventional wisdom. The fact is that it

works nearly 100% of the time if you do it correctly, and that 90% of the time, a stronger back

not only stops hurting, but also returns you to full unencumbered activity in less than a month.

Some background information.

Back pain is the number one, number one cause of missed work days in the United States,

and by extension, the rest of the planet. This is because back pain is the common denominator of human existence.

It has been for quite some time.

Our spines are wonderful structures that provide flexibility to our tors

while protecting the major non-brain part of our nervous system. All vertebrates share this structure

from fish to felines to freemasons, and freemasons have the most problems with their backs.

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