STOP Doing THIS for Low Back Pain

Win a free Back extension machines (end of page): https://lowbackability.com/rooting-for-ya When Brendan Backstrom was faced with low back pain at an early age, he refused to accept that chronic pain would plague his daily life. In this interview, find out about Brendan’s program that has worked for

there’s no lifestyle safe enough to avoid breakdown and reinjury I became very aware quickly of this gap of conservative treatment for the spine and building back from injury is only focused on everything in your core except for the low back today we’re going to show you some amazing things to fix your lower back I had a history of low back pain for many many years ever since College I did something really stupid I tried to squat 425 lbs and blew my disc out and ever since then I’ve been struggling with a low back ins s of kaipan I recently stumbled on some really cool information by a man named Brendan Backstrom he found something that I never really looked at or really considered and I wanted to bring him on to show you this information because if you have low back pain you need to know this welcome Brendan thanks for coming on thank you so much I uh I appreciate you Shar the story of your back history and the deadlift it took for you to become aware of that potential for pain I only needed about 300 lb to end up in the same story so yours is a little bit more impressive but it’s honor you kind of were in a situation with a lot of people you were basically they told well you know you can’t ever really get to a point where it’s fully resolved you have to just kind of cope with it and do the best you can yeah so just kind of just accept that right and and you said uh no I’m I’m going to see if I could figure this out right yeah so I thought I was an isolated situation an isolated case and being you know I only knew I had a low back once I hurt my low back and then as I went to the doctors I started to become very familiar with what is the current culture and uh mindset around the low back and that it’s something really to protect not something to build and uh it’s a fact of age and as you get older back pain is just something that comes with life so what does that mean if you’re 21 and you started to have chronic back issues that just means you got the Unlucky draw and now you started this spiral early so you better buckle up and learn how to be careful and I was in the field a little bit I was training to try to become a physical therapist and I I thought I had a really good grasp of how to be as careful as you can be as mechanically safe and it turns out there’s no lifestyle safe enough to avoid breakdown and reinjury and and so I became very aware quickly of this gap of the uh you know sophisticated science that has a lot of Merit and it works well for getting people out of the initial injuries and the initial pain and many people end up in this Loop that I did which is where you become more sensitive and more vulnerable and then you just feel disempowered and lost and uh I thought it was just me I only found out through sharing on the internet and people surprising to my surprise resonating that it turns out there’s lots of people of all ages in this sort of state and they just want to want to know there’s any hope to build the back I mean if you just if you look up you know low back pain it’s all about well you know if you’ve injured your back you have to protect it right you have to squat down very carefully make sure you don’t reinjure it tell us a little bit about the point where you said you know wait a second there’s something neglected here there’s something missing yeah so it’s a it’s a very very standard approach to view the core as the protection for the low back and I completely agree and we do well with that I don’t know what led me to this sort of questioning but I started to view the core is like the core of an apple it’s what it’s the center point of everything that’s meant to protect you and so much vital organs and the spine but when you are in sports medicine the core is mainly talked about with the things in front with your abs with the sides with the obliques and deeper maybe trans verse abdominis these muscles that are known to stabilize you which is important but then I started to see I I’ve never gotten hurt my oblique I’ve never gotten hurt on the side I keep getting hurt at the direct weak in my armor which is my low back directly so when I started to look at the core through just a textbook without the teaching of how to train it but just Anatomy wise it seemed like a more fitting concept of the core is a 360 Barrel also with the ceiling and also with the floor so you have the front of the ABS which we train a lot of in gym culture and lifting we’ve all done sit-ups we have the obliques we have some of the deeper side muscles the stabilizers but then in the spine there’s this wall of tissue you have layers with the big ones spinal Erectors that keep you upright but then you also have segment by segment little musculature that almost hugs the bones of the spine and gives you true stability in circulation close to all the problem area so majority of conservative treatment for the spine and in building back from injury is only focused on everything in your core except for the low back that’s I understand why it’s the most scary it’s the most frightening to touch because it’s the most sensitive so it’s actually very safe advice in the short term to just not touch it but then in the long term it guarantees an acceleration of breakdown and Decay so that’s how I ended up to that sort of mindset if anyone’s watching basically he stumbled on the back part of this core which is part of the spine are basically just very very very weak and it’s going to keep you very fragile so his program is pretty cool because he found a way to get the back really strong on a really nice gradual way as you said in your video you know you could very easily overdo it so here’s another principle I want you to talk about when you rehab the lower back if you want to call it that or you want to strengthen or balance it out um there’s a there’s a right way to do it in a wrong way so just kind of talk a little bit about that because that’s kind of like an underlying principle of your whole program as far as you don’t you do this on a very gradual level so you don’t reinjure yourself right so one of the one of the most delicate processes is going to be reestablishing communication with an area of the body that you have either massed or avoided for so long so we don’t know what a productive low back stimulus may feel like and so what that means practically is many of us have gone to the gym and done bicep curls and we know what that feels like we may go and train our legs and feel a pump in the quads and we know what that feels like but after many reinjuries and becoming more sensitive and having more breakdown in that area of the back when you go to train your low back you have to be slower than you think not training to the level of the strength of the muscles you have to train to a concept which I’ve tried to teach people of tissue tolerance lowest sensitivity of your most fragile tissue that’s what’s going to set the pace for this sort of training and so if we go to the back training I show a lot of times I may show the further stages because I’m proud of what I’ve built to and I want to inspire fire others who are starting from an injured place but the starting point is actually scaled back to something that almost doesn’t look like training it could just be holding your torso up at a certain angle for 30 seconds and you’re just squeezing the low back muscles gently without any motion and then you see almost through a bit of survivorship bias did you make it through that with no pain is the the next day do you have any increase of symptoms if not that’s your current capacity you now got a little bit more familiarized