Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

2852.001 - 2876.543 Stuart McGill

You stub your toe once, okay, well, it hurts a bit and the pain goes away fairly quickly. But if every day you stubbed your toe, you would increase the sensitivity so that you don't have to stub it anymore. All you have to do is lightly touch that sensitized toe and you are going to have a maladaptive heightened response. So if we keep creating pain on that toe, it will never get better.