These back stretches that most of the industry advises are the ones NHS physios give out as their standard leaflet to patients for back pain, the same ones McGill criticises as creating a short relief effect through stretch. A bit of research I skimmed though on this actually treated these stretches as "strengthening" which seems quite strange.
It's not just influencers today. Seems in history people have tried to simplify back pain to one 'evil', and the remedy, which is best, flexion or extension, as if it could be reduced to this.
These back stretches that most of the industry advises are the ones NHS physios give out as their standard leaflet to patients for back pain, the same ones McGill criticises as creating a short relief effect through stretch. A bit of research I skimmed though on this actually treated these stretches as "strengthening" which seems quite strange.
It's not just influencers today. Seems in history people have tried to simplify back pain to one 'evil', and the remedy, which is best, flexion or extension, as if it could be reduced to this.
I think McGill is on the right lines.
All things have to be tailored as you say!,