The WORST Stretches For Low Back Pain (And What To Do Instead) Ft. Dr. Stuart McGill
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Date: 2022-01-03
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george
Stretching is for increasing useful range of motion, and, as in yoga nd all kinetic activity, include muscular action at the periphery of range.
Stretching induces flexibility - I had never before heard of it as palliative for pain. Though pain may occur in response to lengthy periods of inactivity, pain is normally a signal of damage.
Could the actual problem be the proliferation of youtube trash making money for falsehood?
I suggest that this is so.
We find coherent ancient arts practiced and developed to reduce self-induced stress, like hatha yoga, misused to seek some kind of social advantage, rather than the natural unitary sensorimotor perceptions for which the art was developed.
Life is NOT about finding palliatives so that one can sit endlessly to concentrate on making money or exploitation, or impressing others.
To have become obese, for example has been shown to be a threat response - over 97% of the obese will admit to have been perceiving (not at all always accurately) threat. Just as such threat perception arises from early abuse by larger, older individuals, so does much pain arise from perception of threat, and the tension of the fight/flight, or resistance/submission/escape response.
Look elsewhere for pain relief, using one of the three responses suppressed, INCLUDING flight from sedentary life.
Palliatives by definition are NOT cures. One does not enter such arts as yoga to exp[erience palliative while maintaining the origin of the ill, be it sedentism, overdense social situations not allowing stress relief - time for clear attention to the source of pain, the mental narratives through which, unaddressed, one experiences mental pain, from which much suffering arises. Plants remain in place. Animals, of which we are merely one, moveto resolveall difficulties other than injury, which requires resting the injured area to heal. Stretches, thus, are antithetical to healing of actual injury. they are, again, for normalizing greater ranges of motion.
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Stretching is for increasing useful range of motion, and, as in yoga nd all kinetic activity, include muscular action at the periphery of range.
Stretching induces flexibility - I had never before heard of it as palliative for pain. Though pain may occur in response to lengthy periods of inactivity, pain is normally a signal of damage.
Could the actual problem be the proliferation of youtube trash making money for falsehood?
I suggest that this is so.
We find coherent ancient arts practiced and developed to reduce self-induced stress, like hatha yoga, misused to seek some kind of social advantage, rather than the natural unitary sensorimotor perceptions for which the art was developed.
Life is NOT about finding palliatives so that one can sit endlessly to concentrate on making money or exploitation, or impressing others.
To have become obese, for example has been shown to be a threat response - over 97% of the obese will admit to have been perceiving (not at all always accurately) threat. Just as such threat perception arises from early abuse by larger, older individuals, so does much pain arise from perception of threat, and the tension of the fight/flight, or resistance/submission/escape response.
Look elsewhere for pain relief, using one of the three responses suppressed, INCLUDING flight from sedentary life.
Palliatives by definition are NOT cures. One does not enter such arts as yoga to exp[erience palliative while maintaining the origin of the ill, be it sedentism, overdense social situations not allowing stress relief - time for clear attention to the source of pain, the mental narratives through which, unaddressed, one experiences mental pain, from which much suffering arises. Plants remain in place. Animals, of which we are merely one, moveto resolveall difficulties other than injury, which requires resting the injured area to heal. Stretches, thus, are antithetical to healing of actual injury. they are, again, for normalizing greater ranges of motion.
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Mark
I have Lumbar Spondylosis, which basically means that I have a compression in my lower spine and the nerves on both sides of the spinal column have a small impingement (are pinched. I tried some of the bad stretches after using the NeuroMD back pain corrective therapy device as instructed and I am not getting the pain relief I want. Either the machine or the exercise or both may be causing back pain to increase I thought. Sadly, I was not sure whether the device or the exercise were harming me. But according to your video some the stretches I was instructed to do was bad. Will these exercise work for me?
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I have Lumbar Spondylosis, which basically means that I have a compression in my lower spine and the nerves on both sides of the spinal column have a small impingement (are pinched. I tried some of the bad stretches after using the NeuroMD back pain corrective therapy device as instructed and I am not getting the pain relief I want. Either the machine or the exercise or both may be causing back pain to increase I thought. Sadly, I was not sure whether the device or the exercise were harming me. But according to your video some the stretches I was instructed to do was bad. Will these exercise work for me?
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Megan
I'm 38 and out of nowhere I could not even move. My back was so tight and I was in shock. Unsuccessfully I was trying yoga poses for a few days then thankfully found this video. It saved me! After 2-3 days of these stretches I am back to 100%. I am committed to watching this every morning and night. I refuse to have another setback! Shoutout to everyone else in the comments whose like me and your back has been saved! Thank you to Jeremy and the doc for life changing video.
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I'm 38 and out of nowhere I could not even move. My back was so tight and I was in shock. Unsuccessfully I was trying yoga poses for a few days then thankfully found this video. It saved me! After 2-3 days of these stretches I am back to 100%. I am committed to watching this every morning and night. I refuse to have another setback! Shoutout to everyone else in the comments whose like me and your back has been saved! Thank you to Jeremy and the doc for life changing video.
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Mick
Best stretch for me lately is first thing in the morning before I get out of bed is laying on my stomach and pushing up with my arms to bend backwards. And I also tighten my back muscles to help lift my shoulders. I'm thinking, based on what McGill says about the back, is that with the disk pumped up with fluid in the morning it helps push some of that fluid out without pushing the disk into the nerves like bending forward tends to do.
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Best stretch for me lately is first thing in the morning before I get out of bed is laying on my stomach and pushing up with my arms to bend backwards. And I also tighten my back muscles to help lift my shoulders. I'm thinking, based on what McGill says about the back, is that with the disk pumped up with fluid in the morning it helps push some of that fluid out without pushing the disk into the nerves like bending forward tends to do.
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Nakstar8
I use to do pull ups after every work out.
I think it is a great way to stretch both,
back muscles and the spine.
I've been suffering from 3 herniated disk and I know what kind of torture it can be.
Even though inversion therapy still the best choice imo.
Pull ups or just dead hangs helped me so much in easing my pain and I've never understood why they are so underated.
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I use to do pull ups after every work out.
I think it is a great way to stretch both,
back muscles and the spine.
I've been suffering from 3 herniated disk and I know what kind of torture it can be.
Even though inversion therapy still the best choice imo.
Pull ups or just dead hangs helped me so much in easing my pain and I've never understood why they are so underated.
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Bandits&Spies
Ok, I just found this video and tried the stretches on my next break. OH MY GOODNESS IT WORKS! I am sending this to everyone that I know with lower back pain. I am a grad student with a desk job and have been having issues since last summer. I just sat back down and it immediately feels better! Took less than 4 minutes to go through everything.
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Ok, I just found this video and tried the stretches on my next break. OH MY GOODNESS IT WORKS! I am sending this to everyone that I know with lower back pain. I am a grad student with a desk job and have been having issues since last summer. I just sat back down and it immediately feels better! Took less than 4 minutes to go through everything.
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Ness
Several days ago my back went out on me as it does oncr in a while. Very painful and couldn't stand up straight. Tried my usual stretching routine when this happens and it didn't work. Came across this video and two days in using these techniques it's getting better. Will continue with this cause it's working! Thanks a lot for putting this out there.
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Several days ago my back went out on me as it does oncr in a while. Very painful and couldn't stand up straight. Tried my usual stretching routine when this happens and it didn't work. Came across this video and two days in using these techniques it's getting better. Will continue with this cause it's working! Thanks a lot for putting this out there.
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Noah
This might not the right video for people with really bad lower back pain. I recommend other yt videos, from spinecare decompression and bob and brad really helped alot more. These in the videos were almost too difficult and really painful. Oh also check out Athlene X lower back exercise to strengthen ur lower back to never have that pain again.
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This might not the right video for people with really bad lower back pain. I recommend other yt videos, from spinecare decompression and bob and brad really helped alot more. These in the videos were almost too difficult and really painful. Oh also check out Athlene X lower back exercise to strengthen ur lower back to never have that pain again.
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Luke
Thanks! Liked, sub'd, shared. Will review:
1: 55 cat and camel max 7-8 reps.
4: 43 psoas stretch (and avoid prolonged sitting) 2 sec per side 6x, basically lunge with back leg's arm up over head.
6: 30 hip airplanes 3x3sec.
8: 00 or 8: 30 stand up every 20-30 minutes and lift hands together overhead, breathe deep
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Thanks! Liked, sub'd, shared. Will review:
1: 55 cat and camel max 7-8 reps.
4: 43 psoas stretch (and avoid prolonged sitting) 2 sec per side 6x, basically lunge with back leg's arm up over head.
6: 30 hip airplanes 3x3sec.
8: 00 or 8: 30 stand up every 20-30 minutes and lift hands together overhead, breathe deep
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Oceann
I never thought I would have back issues but I had to be honest with myself. I have been eating and overall just living an unhealthy lifestyle outside of work. I am not training in track and field and am eating much healthier I see the difference but my back still hurts lol.
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I never thought I would have back issues but I had to be honest with myself. I have been eating and overall just living an unhealthy lifestyle outside of work. I am not training in track and field and am eating much healthier I see the difference but my back still hurts lol.
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