Show Notes
If you've been told you have anterior pelvic tilt or "too much curve" in your lower back, this session shows why that verdict is usually a guess — and what a real spine actually measures.
Using a member's own lumbar X-rays (a neutral view plus flexion and extension), we walk through what your spine can and can't be measured to have. If you've got a herniated disc, a disc bulge or degenerative disc disease at L4/L5 or L5/S1 and someone has told you your pelvis is tilted, your curve is too big or your back is "out of alignment", this will help you tell the difference between a measured finding and confident guesswork.
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We explain why alignment can only really be judged from imaging (the spine sits inches beneath the skin, so a hands-on posture check can't see it), why the flexion and extension views show the hips moving as much as the spine, and why that towel under your lower back matters so much. Along the way: why spinal stenosis is a consequence rather than a diagnosis, why pressing on your back doesn't reach the injured disc, and why "never squat or deadlift again" collapses the moment you have to lift a heavy, awkward object in real life.
🔑 Key Topics Covered 📐 What your spine can actually be measured to have: alignment is judged from imaging, not from a clinician's hands — the lumbar spine sits inches under the skin. When people are genuinely scanned, most have normal alignment, and "you're out by a degree or two" is describing normal variation, not a fault. 🪑 Anterior tilt is over-diagnosed — the opposite is more common: if there's any real malalignment, it's usually a flattened curve and a posterior tilt, because sitting puts a long, steady stretch through the back of the spine every day. Being told to tuck and round even more only makes that worse. 🔍 "Your back doesn't move well" is rarely knowable: the flexion and extension views show the hips rotating as much as the spine, so nobody can tell by eye how much movement is lumbar and how much is hip. Big, confident statements about your spine's movement outrun what the exam can support. 🧱 Whatever your alignment, the answer is the same: you can't reliably change most of these numbers — but you can learn to control a neutral spine and build load-bearing strength through the squat and hip hinge, which is what actually protects an injured back.
Chapters 00:00 Anterior pelvic tilt: what a real spine actually measures 02:54 Does sitting or bad posture cause a disc bulge? 05:27 Why you can't reliably measure the lumbar spine by hand 06:45 Reading the X-ray: alignment within normal limits 07:45 Why spinal stenosis is a consequence, not a diagnosis 09:03 The sacral base — the number that really matters for tilt 10:48 Why a flattened curve is far more common than "too much curve" 12:24 Why the towel decompression matters so much 14:42 The flexion/extension views: your hips move as much as your spine 17:33 Why "you have anterior pelvic tilt" overreaches 19:33 Whatever your alignment, control the neutral spine 22:36 Stenosis, inflammation and why pressing on your back misses the disc 27:33 Almost every scan we see is normal or flatter, not curved 30:36 Are loaded squats enough to keep your core strong? 33:39 Why the "core" is the whole trunk — including the spine 37:42 How your back really gets injured (it's rarely dramatic) 40:15 "How is this helping my injury?" — the question to ask 42:51 Why "never deadlift again" falls apart in real life
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