http://fixyourownback.com/blog Why you hurt. What you can do to help feel better. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:15:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I came across this video on a running blog and thought I'd share.  Many of you read Chris McDougall's book, Born to Run and enjoyed it as much as I did.  This video is about 9 minutes in length and chronicles some of the challenges to the Tarahumara Indians of ... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=115 Harvard anthropologist and barefoot runner, Daniel Lieberman, recently had his study on barefoot running published in Nature. You may have caught the story on NPR, along with the companion piece on OPB about how the news was received here in Portland, ground zero for running shoes. You can get ... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=106 Many of you know that I poo-poo the notion that running destroys knees.  The science over the years has just not supported that contention.  Running is one of the cheapest, least time consuming ways to get regular cardiovascular exercise.  Lack of time and money are the 2 most frequently cited ... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=101 Greetings folks! I've been getting a lot of feedback re: the last post here about spine researcher, Dr. Stuart McGill's sentiments on commonly recommended ab exercises. He was interveiwed in the NY Times on June 21, 2009 and his comments and video in that article subsequently became the most emailed ... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=90 Patients often have misconceptions about how to work their abs and protect their back. Repetitive flexion of the lumbar spine, such as when performing sit ups or crunches, contributes to degeneration of the lumbar discs and significantly raises the risk of disc herniation. If you're doing them, stop! If you ... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=86 Just a fun video to share today that I saw on another blog, MalePatternFitness.com.  For those of you who think you have it going on on a bike... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=81 Possibly the most important thing each of us can learn regarding fitness, is that the body will do it's level best to fit into whatever container we pour it into most frequently. For many of us, that container is an office chair chained to a desk. The long term effects ... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=78 Finally, the oft promised explanation of the connection between the butt muscles and the knees. This video shows how modern life upsets the balance of muscle action in the hip and how that becomes problematic when we try to exercise. Buttock pain can also be a sign of irritation of ... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=75 After performing the test outlined in Part 1, Low Back Muscle Endurance Test, you have gathered information which helps to compare your back to healthy ones.  Now we need to decide what to do next.  This video covers the Reverse Pyramid training method to train endurance in the stabilizing muscles ... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=69 This video is the first of 2.  Understanding how your back compares to healthy, non-painful ones is helpful info to have.  The test outlined here, the Lumbar FCE, is based on research generated by Dr. Stuart McGill, and helps us to point out which supportive muscles in the low back ... http://fixyourownback.com/blog/?p=67