Guest Blog by Physiotherapist Tom Slezak from Switch Health When Trends become Trendy. Health professionals can have a tendency to overcomplicate things that really aren’t that complicated. They also can get complacent and start telling clients what they want to hear. Weak glutes/abs have been the trend for the last 5 years. All of you have heard low back pain arises from weak glutes/abs or some other muscle; but this concept is not supported by any credible research. The idea that a ‘weak core’ is the reason for low back pain arose from a series of studies developed by Paul Hodges and Carolyn Richardson which found that people with low back pain often had structural and functional changes to the transversus abdominus (an ab muscle). However these studies have been misinterpreted and have since been heavily
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