<span style="font-weight: 400;">Feel you deserved a weekend lying on the sofa?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well some of you probably do...</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">...but Stuart McGill suggests for many, particularly those who experience low back pain, this may not be as beneficial as you might hope. In fact... it could be detrimental!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the things you know I feel passionately about is educating and encouraging the world; to move more freely and with less pain. </span>

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<h2><b>The Evidence</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Professor Stuart McGill (also known as Dr Spine at Waterloo University in Canada) has done literally hundreds of studies of the spine evidencing what he has discovered about the biomechanics of the spine.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">His ethos, like ours here at the Biomechanics Education Academy and also neuroscientists, Lorimer Moseley and Dave Butler’s, is not to blanket prescribe or to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">assume,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> what can be causing an individual's back pain or movement problem. In some cases less is more, especially in the scenario of movement repetition and back pain. One example of this might be a factory worker who repeatedly twists or rotates around their spine all day long. The last thing they need to do in an exercise class is twist the spine for reps, don't you think?!  </span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">While in other situations, more movement is necessary. One example might be the overweight client who comfort eats and prefers to watch TV all evening, every day.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Much to the annoyance of the learners who enter our academy and ask </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">generic</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> client questions during their time in the academy, they more often than not hear us say “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">it depends…</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”, because we should never generalise what we do with our clients. </span>

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<h2><b>So This Creates A Problem For PT's</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Move more?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Move less?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">How on earth do we find the balance when giving advice to our clients?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well remember, when you read an article it will more often than have not been written with a specific reader or case study in mind. The clarity of this depends upon either the skill or mindframe of the writer. </span>

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<h2><b>Move More</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">When you read 'move more' articles they are likely to be aimed to those leading a more sedentary lifestyles. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Example One</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">; The individual who doesn't exercise AND has a relatively sedentary job.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Example Two</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">; The individual who trains for 1hr a day 6 x per week, then sits behind a desk or on their sofa the rest of it, they’re overall relatively sedentary. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Generally increasing the regularity of moving their body would be advisable in both of these examples</span>

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<h2><b>Move Less</b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">These kind of articles are for those who do</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> excessive</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> reps of the same kind of movement.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Example One</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">; The individual who runs for miles and miles every day, would be going through a lot of reps with impact on the knees. Also a cyclist who rides for miles and miles every day, is also putting a lot of reps on the knee joints. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Example Two;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The individual who plays a 'batting' or racket sport regularly may experience problems in the arm they are using for that particular sport. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Sport is sport and not necessarily the ‘healthiest’ thing for the body's structures and tissues but something we choose to do because we enjoy it.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe your client moves a lot in their job but they don't normally do gym type 'exercises'. Remember that while we are very accustomed to gyms, they have only really been fashionable since the days of Arnie, Gold’s Gym &amp; Muscle Beach. Back then, many people were simply ‘fit’ from their manual labour jobs like working in factories or down mines. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here is a snippet of McGill's advice from <a href="https://www.theptdc.com/2017/04/back-pain-myths/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THIS ARTICLE</a></span>

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<h2><strong>SO IN CONCLUSION…...</strong></h2>
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