STOP Doing THIS for Low Back Pain

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

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 so many people to effectively strengthen their lower back and eliminate lower back pain.

The typical prognosis for low back pain is that you can’t ever completely resolve it. If you have low back pain from injury, you just have to learn to cope with it and accept it.

After injuring his lower back at 21, Brendan did not want to accept that lower back pain was something he’d just have to deal with. The culture surrounding the lower back says that it needs to be protected, not built or rebuilt. Brendan quickly learned that no technique or lifestyle is safe enough to protect the lower back from injury or re-injury.

The standard approach is that the core protects the lower back. Conservative treatment for a spinal injury focuses on everything in the core except for the lower back. With this approach, many people become more sensitive, vulnerable, and disempowered after a lower back injury.

Brendan developed a program to help people slowly and safely develop a strong back. He stresses the importance of rebuilding slowly and viewing recovery as a dial rather than a light switch.

Brendan teaches people to get reacquainted with their lower back. “You can build your own back brace,” Brendan says. Brendan’s technique not only strengthens the muscles of the lower back but also increases circulation to the spine, stretches the fascia, and decreases friction around the nerves.

Brendan explains that sciatica can be tricky to resolve but not impossible. He focuses on slowly strengthening muscles along the sciatic nerve. One of the best features of Brendan’s program is that he attempts to avoid pain.

Three years ago, Brendan experienced chronic SI joint pain in his lower back that affected his everyday life. His problem became so severe that it affected his whole body. Brendan continues to do traditional lifts such as squats but never neglects the lower back.

Brendan’s program isn’t something you’ll complete quickly. His plan takes around 1 to 2 years and can help you remodel the deepest part of your body to overcome lower back pain. His program operates on a “pay what you can” model to make it affordable for everyone.

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0:00.0	There's no lifestyle safe enough to avoid breakdown and re-injury.
0:05.0	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.
0:17.0	Today we're going to show you some amazing things to fix your lower back. I had a history
0:23.5	of low back pain for many, many years ever since college. I did something really stupid. I tried to
0:28.3	squat 425 pounds and blew my disc out. And ever since then I've been struggling with a low back
0:34.2	in sciatica type pain. I recently stumbled on some really cool information
0:38.6	by a man named Brendan Baxter. He found something that I never really looked at or really considered,
0:45.6	and I wanted to bring him on to show you this information, because if you have low back pain,
0:50.1	you need to know this. Welcome, Brendan. Thanks for coming on. Thank you so much. I,
0:55.2	I appreciate you share the story of your back history and the deadlift it took for you to
1:02.1	become aware of that potential for pain. I only needed about 300 pounds to end up in the same
1:08.5	story. So yours is a little bit more impressive, but it's honor.
1:12.4	You kind of were in a situation with a lot of people. You were basically, they were told, well,
1:16.2	you know, you can't ever really get to a point where it's fully resolved. You have to just
1:21.3	kind of cope with it and do the best you can. So just kind of just accept that, right? And you said,
1:26.6	no, I'm going to see if I could figure this out, right?
1:30.4	Yeah.
1:30.9	So I thought I was an isolated situation, an isolated case in being, you know, I only knew I had a low back once I hurt my low back.
1:41.4	And then as I went to the doctors, I started to become very familiar
1:45.2	with what is the current culture and mindset around the low back. And that it's something really
1:51.9	to protect, not something to build. And it's a fact of age. And as you get older, back pain is just
1:58.5	something that comes with life. So what does that mean if you're 21 and you started to have chronic back issues?
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