Dr. Layne Norton

Now, when you have an injury and you have pain, you know, we've all, not all, but a lot of us have gone to the doctor and they've been like, okay, that squat gave you an owie.

Don't ever do those again.

But you have to understand a lot of doctors, especially GPs are not trained in modern pain science.

And they're thinking about liability.

If you, they tell you, you know, you can put, you can go back in and squat again, but

You just need to like start off slow and manage your pain status accordingly and if it flares up, back off on your volume.

Because if somebody goes back in and gets another owie, they go, well, that doctor told me to go squat.

I'm going to sue him now.

Right?

So a lot of doctors are thinking about just minimizing their risk for litigation.

But –

there's something called exposure therapy, which was the other game changer for me.

So to explain it, let's take it from like, I'm sure you've heard of exposure therapy for like psychology, right?

So for example, if I had a fear of spiders,

If you just take me and stick me in a room with a bunch of spiders, that's not exposure therapy.

That's like traumatic and it's going to make it worse, right?

That's like if you have pain and let's say, for example, I dealt with back pain that was triggered by me squatting below parallel and then having a fast and then accelerating the lockout, okay?

So it was only at the top and it was after I squatted below parallel.

So it was very specific pain.

If I went in and tried to do heavy squats, it's just going to strengthen that pain while I'm pain sensitive.