Reddit reviews Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation

I have been meaning to pick up McGill's book on evidence-based back exercises. Has anyone read it and can you provide a review? I feel like it would be helpful for many PCPs / pain specialists / neurologists / orthopedists to guide their patients on nonsurgical options for this very common problem.

How do you feel about Dr. Stuart McGill, one of the worlds leading experts on spine biomechanics, stating that you shouldn't load the spine in the first hour after getting up?

He explains in his book that it takes an hour for the spine to rehydrate to 90%

Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation

FML :(

Hmm, I think that PDF is attacking a strawman idea that professionals don’t believe (“The division of the trunk into core and global muscle system is a reductionist fantasy”) or else it’s something that Pilates trainers or other nonprofessionals do that isn’t supported by doctors and the actual research (“A whole industry grew out of these studies with gyms and clinics worldwide teaching the “tummy tuck” and trunk bracing exercise to athletes for prevention of injury and to patients as a cure for lower back pain”).

Stuart McGill is an expert orthopedic on back pain issues and he prescribes glute and back strengthening exercises. He’s also very careful about the specific exercises and says that many popular exercises for abs etc are not helpful or dangerous. I don’t think he recommends clenching the transverse abdominals. The exercise in the OP video is similar to a dead bug which is a safe and recommended exercise.

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