Dr Stuart McGill (Overcoming Back Injury, Sleep Deprivation and Movement Assessment) - Episode 95
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Dr Stuart McGill is a world renowned authority on back health. We delve into a host of topics from removing the sit up in the Military's PT test to the correlation between sleep deprivation and musculo-skeletal injury.
Dr. Stuart M. McGill is a “distinguished professor emeritus”, University of Waterloo, where he was a professor for 30 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. His advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts, medical groups and elite athletes and teams from around the world.
His work produced over 245 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers, several textbooks, and many international awards including the “Order of Canada” in 2020 for leadership in the back pain area. He mentored over 37 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. Difficult back cases, and elite performers, are regularly referred to him for consultation. Any product associated with this website has been tested in Dr. McGill’s laboratory.
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| 1:25.0 | Welcome, guys, to episode 95 of Behind the Show podcast. My name is James Gearing. And my guest |
| 1:30.3 | this week is the back mechanic, aka Dr. Stuart McGill. This interview was incredible. Now, if you |
| 1:38.2 | do not have a spine, you can turn off now. It's going to be of no benefit for you whatsoever. |
| 1:42.1 | But everyone else, I highly recommend listening. |
| 1:45.0 | We delve into an array of topics from the posterior chain, hinging, training barefoot, the direct |
| 1:53.1 | correlation between sleep deprivation and muscular skeletal injuries, and a host of other areas. |
| 1:59.4 | Dr. McGill is a wealth of knowledge and he opened multiple |
| 2:02.9 | rabbit holes that I'm going to start going down myself. So that being said, please go to iTunes, |
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