Dr. Stuart McGill: Fixing a 'Bad Back', Resolving Pain, Postural Awareness| Ep. 155

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Stuart M. McGill is a professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, where he was a professor for 32 years. His laboratory and experimental research clinic investigated issues related to the causal mechanisms of back pain, how to rehabilitate back-pained people and enhance both injury resilience and performance. This produced over 240 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers, several textbooks, and many international awards. He mentored over 40 graduate students during this scientific journey. During this time he taught thousands of clinicians and practitioners in professional development and continuing education courses around the world. He continues as the Chief Scientific Officer for Backfitpro Inc. His advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts, medical groups and elite athletes and teams from around the world. Difficult back cases are regularly referred to him for consultation. Any product associated with this website has been tested in Dr. McGill’s laboratory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water.
0:08.0	It's about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward.
0:13.6	How much you can take and keep moving forward?
0:16.4	Join Movement Expert Aaron Alexander
0:19.4	as he dives into the minds of the foremost innovative health care thinkers and movement masters on their approach to optimal health and wellness.
0:28.0	A Line Podcast.
0:30.0	Welcome back to the Line Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander and today's phenomenal interview I got to have
0:35.9	Someone that I've had immense amount of respect for for the last decade or so Dr. Stewart McGill
0:40.6	Dr McGill Dr McGill is returning guest on this here program and for good reason he's, what's his story,
0:48.4	he is a professor emeritus at University of Waterloo, he's a professor there for 32 years, he's retired now, he's a writer of several books that folks in the fitness, chiropracty, physical therapy, personal training realm, considered to be Bible, and he's amazing.
1:06.7	He, the last couple of books he did were more for laymen folks, so the last one was the gift of injury
1:12.1	before that the back mechanic
1:13.3	I highly recommend you checking this man out this is episode 155 I think it's like
1:18.4	three years so we'd be on this podcast every Monday morning we've released an
1:22.0	episode for three years dear God in this conversation
1:25.6	we get into everything around spinal mechanics and educating folks on how to start
1:32.4	integrating better movement into 100% of their lives and some of this
1:36.3	slow whittling away that we do to our spines not realizing it, how to recover that
1:41.8	movement function and yeah actual tips in this thing
1:45.7	really important stuff we get into this the previous book gift of injury is with
1:51.2	Dr. Strombergill and Brian Carroll. Brian Carroll is an elite weightlifter and he
1:57.0	smashed his spine throughout his career so a lot of takeaways on how to reverse immense injury and how to keep it from happening
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