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Stuart McGill

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Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If that immediately reduces the pain down their leg, I would say lay prone and have someone pull on your legs along the plane of the table, five or six pounds per leg. Now, the next person comes in and say, oh, that hurts. Well, now we play what we call jazz. This is the art of therapy. I'm playing with how we're going to apply a twisting torque to their feet.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If that immediately reduces the pain down their leg, I would say lay prone and have someone pull on your legs along the plane of the table, five or six pounds per leg. Now, the next person comes in and say, oh, that hurts. Well, now we play what we call jazz. This is the art of therapy. I'm playing with how we're going to apply a twisting torque to their feet.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

No decompression table does all of this. It doesn't have the art. It's more of a brutal hammer. And to really get difficult people, because remember, no one has back pain and says, oh, I think I'll go see Miguel. It doesn't work that way. we only get the ones who've failed 10 previous attempts.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

No decompression table does all of this. It doesn't have the art. It's more of a brutal hammer. And to really get difficult people, because remember, no one has back pain and says, oh, I think I'll go see Miguel. It doesn't work that way. we only get the ones who've failed 10 previous attempts.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

No decompression table does all of this. It doesn't have the art. It's more of a brutal hammer. And to really get difficult people, because remember, no one has back pain and says, oh, I think I'll go see Miguel. It doesn't work that way. we only get the ones who've failed 10 previous attempts.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

No, we've got to know, we've got to have some skills here.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

No, we've got to know, we've got to have some skills here.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

No, we've got to know, we've got to have some skills here.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

That's exactly what you should feel. So you've improved the cylinder. So the diaphragm pumps up and down inside the cylinder to allow you to lung ventilate. If you don't have that athletic diaphragm, you're entraining your abdominal muscles, the oblique muscles, to the breathing effort while you're running. It wears you out. It also compromises your spine.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

That's exactly what you should feel. So you've improved the cylinder. So the diaphragm pumps up and down inside the cylinder to allow you to lung ventilate. If you don't have that athletic diaphragm, you're entraining your abdominal muscles, the oblique muscles, to the breathing effort while you're running. It wears you out. It also compromises your spine.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

That's exactly what you should feel. So you've improved the cylinder. So the diaphragm pumps up and down inside the cylinder to allow you to lung ventilate. If you don't have that athletic diaphragm, you're entraining your abdominal muscles, the oblique muscles, to the breathing effort while you're running. It wears you out. It also compromises your spine.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So you need those muscles to form a girdle and hold it all together. Now, I know enough of your history that I suspect you will have a little bit of a disc bulge.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So you need those muscles to form a girdle and hold it all together. Now, I know enough of your history that I suspect you will have a little bit of a disc bulge.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So you need those muscles to form a girdle and hold it all together. Now, I know enough of your history that I suspect you will have a little bit of a disc bulge.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

vacuuming in of certain types of disc bulges. So I'm glad it works for you and you found it and it will work for some others or it will make the pain worse than some others. And there's tests for figuring that out.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

vacuuming in of certain types of disc bulges. So I'm glad it works for you and you found it and it will work for some others or it will make the pain worse than some others. And there's tests for figuring that out.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

vacuuming in of certain types of disc bulges. So I'm glad it works for you and you found it and it will work for some others or it will make the pain worse than some others. And there's tests for figuring that out.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Right.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Right.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Right.