Low Back Pain Podcast

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Are core exercises the answer for your lower back pain? In this episode, I discuss the famous “McGill Big 3” exercises for core activation and spine stability. Many individuals are led to believe that their low back pain is from a “weak core” or that they need to strengthen their core to resolve these issues. I would say in about 99% of scen...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Should you keep training or regularly exercising during low back rehab? This is the #1 question I am asked by all of my new online clients in my low back program. Most individuals struggling with low back pain, disc herniations, or sciatica want to maintain their regular activity or exercise routine but aren't sure if they are causing more h...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Did you need any further convincing to move or exercise more than the fact that it will make you a smarter human being? From a biological, evolutionary standpoint our brain pushes us to move to help our ability to survive by scavenging for food or finding needed resources. The way it does this is by releasing dopamine when you exercise or mo...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: In this episode, I discuss the potentially dangerous effects a diagnosis can bring. Just like kids like to brag about their injuries, or who has the most broken bones, this can carry into adulthood and cause certain individuals to seek a label they can identify with, bring up at every opportune moment, and ultimately consume them. A typical...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Does low back rehab have to be hard? Do you have to be sweating and struggling for something to be hard? Well if the difficulty was all that mattered then I would just tell my online low back clients to do burpees and planks, but obviously, that wouldn't be helpful for low back pain, disc herniation, or sciatica! Good rehab yields good resul...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Can't seem to get back to running without low back pain or flaring up an old low back injury? It is extremely frustrating right?! Well, there may be a couple of steps you have missed along the way and I am here today to discuss those steps with you so that you can get back to running the right way free of low back pain! Returning to any spor...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Failed low back surgeries are common enough that a syndrome is named after it! Failed Low Back Surgery Syndrome is when low back surgery outcomes do not match the expectations of the patient or doctor, or when the surgery ends up producing more pain than prior to the surgery. Failed low back surgeries affect 10%-40% of individuals that recei...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Have you been told, or wondered if your low back pain could be because of inflammation? In this podcast, I discuss 2 specific online client cases where dietary changes influenced their low back pain and helped them achieve the next level of recovery! Also, this podcast is addressing chronic systemic inflammation and its influences on low bac...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Load management is a crucial component to not only low back rehab, but any rehabilitative program for any injury type! This is often a missing step in most rehab programs and a misunderstanding of these principles can lead to re-injury, flare-ups, and early termination of a rehab program due to frustration or confusion. If individuals with l...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: The dangers of asking Facebook for health advice! In this podcast, I discuss some real examples of why consulting your Facebook friends for serious healthcare advice may not be the best idea. Just like if you were in a serious legal situation, you wouldn't take the recommendations from a Facebook thread. Well, neither should you if you are i...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Felt a pop picking up something heavy? Hard to stand up straight now and maybe some radiation into the leg? How do you know if your low back pain is from a disc herniation? In this episode I dive in deep discussing all the signs and symptoms of the most common and also not-so-common disc herniations. These identifying factors are crucial to...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Low back flare-ups are the worst! This causes much panic and most individuals feel like they can't move, are scared, and are not sure what to do about it. This also leads to the highest rate of emergency room visits when combined with sciatic nerve pain. The thing is, most people are not provided with a plan of what they can do in these situ...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Anterior pelvic tilt is talked about all the time for a cause of low back pain... but is it? Or is this topic actually more of a problem than a solution? In this podcast I discuss the science behind anterior pelvic tilt and the association it has with pain and how the misinformation regarding it could be causing more of a problem for your re...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: When is the safest time to deadlift to avoid low back or lumbar disc injury? Most lumbar disc-related injuries with deadlifts happen to occur in the morning, but why? In this episode, we discuss specific times of day that are the safest times to deadlift and the science behind them. There are a lot of contexts that are also needed to establi...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Can inflammation be a good thing? Especially for disc herniations? In this episode, we dive deep into the inflammatory process behind larger disc herniations and how inflammation can be quite helpful to the recovery process! Stunting this natural inflammatory process could negatively impact the healing of the disc as we see larger disc herni...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Everyone wants to have healthy low back discs. That's a fact. Many people are told they have thinning discs or degenerated discs, and many low back issues are derived from disc-related issues! The good news is that a study from 2014 documented how easy it is to improve disc health fast and effectively! Here I will discuss exactly what this s...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Weak glute? Uneven hip? Tight QL? 1 quad bigger than the other? These are a few of MANY things I hear clients of mine have been told as to why they are suffering from low back pain. This is NOT a good approach to low back pain as it "segments" the individual and creates multiple problems instead of focusing on the big picture. Rather than fo...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Have you been told your low back pain is because you have "bad posture"? Well, you aren't alone, and unfortunately, you and many others have been told outdated information that does not cause low back pain! This is a myth! Posture is dynamic and always changing, your posture truly doesn't matter! However, how long you are in a given posture...

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Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: Will your disc herniation heal? A common misconception is that once a disc is herniated or bulged that it can only be "fixed" with a surgical procedure. This could not be further from the truth! In fact, 97% of disc herniations can heal with the right rehab program. Additionally, a large study showed that the larger a disc herniation is, the...

Want to learn our Sciatica Method that has helped thousands across the world eliminate their sciatica? Click here! https://bit.ly/sciatica-free Many people are under the impression that they need a "strong core" for low back pain, or that the reason for their low back pain is because they have a "weak core". Well, this isn't exactly true. Research shows the strength of your core DOES NOT relate to...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program: What is sciatica? Sciatica is inherently a loose term referring to any pain radiating down the back of the leg along the distribution of the sciatic nerve. This can be caused by numerous things but is most commonly related to disc herniation or sciatic nerve impingement. There are a few main causes for sciatica that are discussed in this epi...

Dr. Grant Elliott with RehabFix Online Low Back Program Information can help OR hurt you! There are so many myths out there that individuals with low back pain are told every day. This can be very harmful towards your recovery and I do not want you falling for these traps! The more you know, the more in control you will be, and the better chances you have of recovering properly for life! To view h...