Hello Dr. McGill I started watching most of the podcasts you are in, Huberman etc. I’m interested in buying your book, as I understand neck is part of the back, does your method work for neck pain and numbness/tingling as well?

Excellent lecture, and we hope our anatomical models help with learning the concepts.

Is there a video he talked about ankylosis?

Thanks so much!

Speaks to the quality of the info that this has been viewed as much as it has been for how poor the production/editing/sound is

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Hello, I have a question regarding core engagement. I just recently had a microdiscectomy (5 days ago). And I had previously learnt how to engage my transverse abdominals correctly. My core is at its strongest it’s ever been and have learnt how to engage pretty much all the muscles around my torso (obliques, rectus abdominis, internal and external obliques). I wanted to know how much I should be engaging my core at this time and if there is any danger in engagement at all? I was worried I would put too much compression on my lower back by too much engagement. Or is it good that I am engaged, I’ve heard it supports your back like a internal corset. Could you advise please?

It's very sad to see the there are very less views on such informative video. Huge respect to Dr. Stuart McGill toward his services in this field... 👏 🙌

What is this hurts worse ? What does it mean if doing this exercise hurts worse , but kinda feels good . Feels like my back wants to pop when I do it . Thank you so much!

Dr. McGill can you please discuss Isthmic Spondylolisthesis in adults? Does your back mechanism program can help with pars defect at L5 with L5/S1 anterolisthesis?

Dr Stu if anyone has ever needed u its NBA star Ben Simmons -- his doctors keep defaulting to surgery kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKm2dK1plqubbqM

I’m reading Back Mechanic and listening/watching every McGill podcast & video I can find that mentions Spondylolisthesis. If anyone at Backfitpro Pro reads the KZbin comments, I would love any links or suggestions for where I should go to learn more! My “Spondy” is stenosis related - not injury related. Cheers!

Oh I’m so glad to have found this. I’m reading the back mechanic book & just couldn’t understand what this was all about! I am 54 with spondylolisthesis, stenosis ….. standing is so hard, sitting feels great …. I want to stay active & help my grumpy back …. am learning loads from McGills many books and podcasts Thank you for all the education and knowledge shared!

My sister recommended your podcast. Great information. I can’t walk far from my stenosis but I can play pickleball for several hours.

Why Pilates roll ups are not good, we only do 6 on class? I have never met a pi!she's instructor with back pain

Awesome! To add body adapts tention may travel up. I had years since my body learned how to block lower back pain in the cost of upper body chronic stiffness. It's may be a good price untill it goes up to the neck tentions. You can bring back upper body mobility in the cost of lower back pain. Only strong core may fix it. Hopefully.

There was a NASCAR driver who used the same principle of stiffness to race from 10th to 5th in the final lap... he jammed the side of the car against the wall and gunned it. The stiffness of the wall kept his car under control so he could keep the pedal to the metal as he went around the oval. He zoomed past everyone, though the move is now considered illegal (it demolished the side of his car too)

Pain and Injury is the great corrupter! Truer words never spoken. I think its also true for one's mental state. I'm sixty eight and its a shame this knowledge was not readily available or even known forty years ago. Just awesome content.

Couldn’t we explain the injury during fluoroscopy as a pain inhibition from excessive muscular strain of the paraspinals allowing for the flexion at 2-3? I find a good way to tell the difference on exam to be a supported lumbar flexion. If you support the upper body upon flexion and the pain goes away, it’s muscular. If the pain persists, it’s discogenic. The visceral innervation also tends to give it a more diffuse localization. Overall, I wonder if we over attribute pain to structural abnormality vs neuromuscular dysfunction. Oh no, I necro’d the thread. Sorry internet.

In what universe is this gold of a video meant to be available for free. Truly and deeply appreciate everything that Dr McGill does and shares.

Wordless value. Killer video. Thank you.

Dr McGill, you are phenomenal.

Great content, wish the audio didn't keep glitching.

Am i supposed.to be feeling my muscles in the back working as in tightining when doing the big 3? Im not extending or flexlion of my spine. Just feel the in my back working is that ok?

She looks weird without a mustache.

Looking forward to learning and understanding as I have a chronic back condition and practice yoga as well

Dr McGill's books and exercises gave me my life back starting six years ago. He changes lives, I'm forever grateful for his effort and work and I can't speak often or highly enough of his gifts.

Thank you that you exist!! There is hope for us!! ❤

YOU ARE A GENIOUS..! Thank you for all your effort and dedication. You give Light to my life of years of pain and despair. I have been to so many specialists and they all only say that it is something degenerative with no solution. There are so many people teaching nonsense, hurting people and making money from operations. I can't believe that many people in the world still don't know him. God bless you..!

The back mechanic book helped me big time! Along with the other book of Stuart on advanced Back care! The name escapes me right now

When Brian says, 'you need to seek out the best people in the field" then he goes on "not the people with the most followers on social media." = Mic drop.

"It feels shorter." = Gold!

"Is that the one that was painful before?" = McGill is a genius.

Gold!

Pure gold once again.

I've been a full time farrier (horseshoer) for 26 years and for the better part of that time I have endured debilitating lower back pain. I've always just gritted my teeth and suffered through it. I'm learning a lot from these videos and have ordered the back mechanic book. I think my life has been a recipe for back pain. I was a 4 sport athlete through high school (football, basketball, track, wrestling). I hauled hay at nights during my teen years working on a hay crew and we lifted and stacked 80lb bales at a rate of about 1800 bales a night. I got obsessed with upper body weight training after I broke a bench press record in high school, but I totally ignored any lower body training. I then worked on a ranch where my job was to break horses. I broke and trained over 400 horses while working there, training most of them to be sold as polo ponies... then I attempted a short career playing polo professionally before giving that up to shoe horses full time. I've shod over 70,000 horses, worked 7 days a week most of my life. Raised 4 kids. Now I'm as stiff as the tin man, my back is shot, when I bend over working I often have to find a wall or something to pull up on so I can stand up. My back muscles fatigue very quickly. Sometimes it's all i can do not to fall forward on my face when I bend over. My lower back slips out if I sneeze, if I step off a curb, or out of a truck, or if I have to react to something quickly, After work I lay down and can't get anything done around the house because I need every bit of back recovery I can manage to put towards the next day's work. I have a vertebra that feels out of place as I can put my thumb in the space where I believe it should be. I'm starting to recently feel what seems to be fluid or soft swelling around that specific area. I bought a tens unit and that thing feels like it is pulling my vertebra out and in, it seems to relax the muscles but the next morning after I do the tens unit my back pain is far worse. I'm really hoping Dr McGill's exercises help me and looking forward to the book arriving. I've briefly tried a few of them and feel as though they are helping,,, almost like a warm sensation and a brief erasure of all pain after just attempting to do the few things I've found him mentioning online.

I know you're the low back pain guy... but my issues are terrible upper back and cervical instability. I'm wondering if you have any recommendations for exercises to remedy these issues, or if I should just focus on the 'Big 3'. I've tried a great deal of things and I seem to still be getting worse. I'm starting on 'The Big 3' but I seem to keep hurting myself doing curl ups and level 1 side bridges. Always yank something in the back of my head.

Why are you on utube, how can we go and see you, you don’t give precise information,

Fascinating

I make no money. I could barely walk to work today. My lower spine is screwed. Forget weight lifters. Help the working man that WCB screwed over.

Great video!

I was a student at the University of Waterloo in 1986 to 1989 and had a young professor with a very impressive mustache! His name was Stuart McGill. Little did i know that he would become a workd-wudecsuthirity in the management of low back pain. Now, over 30 years later I am a chiropractor in Bangalore. India and still learning from my professor via KZbin.

Dr. McGill truly does a great service to the back pain communities.

Quite a random observation. Wanted to share nonetheless. Ever since starting with Big 3 I've found that my hands and feet are warmer. I often had cold hands and feet (came in waves). Not sure if you've come across this before? Anyways, cheers.

wow, someone please edit these older videos and post them again. The audio was rough.

Unbelievable

Prof. McGill's method put me back upright after a huge L5 and spondyretro listhesis injury ( the alternative was screws and rods in my back - still a looming promise of a neurosurgeon ) ...then I moved on to calisthenics, the injury was a distant memory, became overconfident/cocky in my training, neglected the big three routine and 13 years later ...it caught me out out again with a vengance.. Now I'm out of it again only thanks to reintroducing the big three routine ...As he says , not once or thrice a week but everyday.. like a prayer.. for life, Thank you Profesor...

not sure if I'm understanding correctly. Did Dr McGill recommend ditching the straps? As in, no straps when deadlifting? Does that mean you'd do alternate grips? hook grip? Isn't there a point when the grip becomes the bottle neck?

We need more professionals like her to be honest - attitude is correct