Seven years ago, this journey began. Squadrons and wings invite me to teach and train the end user directly how to mitigate spine pain. You don’t have to hurt. Yet, it’s been my experience that physical therapists, CSCSs, ATCs do not have specialized experience with spine pain biomechanics. They’re unfamiliar with Dr Tom Heimburg’s work on the thermodynamics of nerves. They cannot produce an action potential after being stretched.
Stretching therefore makes us weaker when what the spine needs to not send a pain signal is strengthening.