Oh, Dr. McGill, if I don't ride the elliptical, it's my stress reliever. I'm going to come home and murder my kids.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'll say, fine, go and have your surgery. Roll the dice. They might repair your disc. But you will go back to the thing that caused the pathology in the first place.

And chances are the surgery will fail after a couple of years.

But, you know, go ahead.

Hello, my friends.

Welcome to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie.

It's been your host, Dr. Stephanie Estima.

This episode,

and without one iota of exaggeration, if you have ever experienced any type of pain,

whether it be back pain, pain in your joints, this is going to be the episode that you

are going to want to listen to and you are going to want to share with anyone that you know

that is suffering from chronic or acute pain. My guest today is Dr. Stuart McGill. I can't even believe

I'm saying this because this is the man that I studied when I was a little bitty, squeaky

chiropractic, chiropractic student back in 2002. I believe his book came out, low back disorders. It was the

Bible that all of the clinicians and students lived off of. His work is legendary. I have been

following his work, I guess, for the better part of 23 years. And the research that he has done

still stands true today. So a little bit about

Dr. Stu McGill. Get ready for this bio, guys. He is a distinguished professor emeritus of

spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, where he served for over three decades,

30 years, renowned globally for his pioneering research into the causes and rehabilitation

of back pain. Dr. McGill has authored more than 240 peer-reviewed scientific papers, has four

influential books, including back mechanic and low-back disorders. So back mechanic is the one

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