Weekly Recap 11/3-11/9
Here’s what we are reading, watching, and liking.
The article of the week is “Pain and Movement - Caught in an Endless Loop of Misinformation” from Barbell Medicine.
The video of the week is from Jeff Nipard about how hard people should train to build muscle. He speaks with 5 different experts about this topic and, while there is some agreement on certain aspects and some differing opinions when it comes to the details.
Our first social media post of the week is from Precision Nutrition about trigger foods. Our second is from Nick Hannah on things that build up our energy and things that drain it.
Article of the Week
Pain and Movement – Caught in an Endless Loop of Misinformation
We’ve previously published a number of articles on pain and the complexities of making sense of pain both as a human who personally experiences pain and being tasked with helping those clinically with their pain experiences. In this week’s article, we’ll try to further the conversation about the pain experience by examining how people with low back pain move in their environment versus those without.
As previously discussed, low back pain is a highly prevalent and debilitating experience throughout the world. There are many narratives on how to reduce the risk of low back pain, which is where many technique/movement discussions arise. We often hear statements such as “Don’t flex your back while lifting”, “Lifting with a straight back is safer”, “Don’t lift that way or you will injure your back”.
Key Points:
Many beliefs about movement and pain are filtered through a kinesiopathological model of thinking. With respect to low back pain, we often hear narratives centered around not lifting or moving a particular way to avoid low back pain or “injury”. Although these narratives may be provided in an attempt to be helpful, they likely have negative consequences of their own.
We do not have evidence demonstrating that a particular way of moving is guaranteed to lead to back pain and/or “injury”.
People learn about pain in two ways: Direct experience (engaged in a behavior or event and experienced pain) and/or Indirect experience (language and/or observation of others).
Video of the Week
Instagram Posts of The Week
