Arranging a consultation with Dr. Stuart McGill requires reading his book, 'Back Mechanic', first.

“well short of that I wrote back mechanic now it's not on the internet and the reason is they have to have some background understanding of how their back works and then go through a series of self tests that's what the book does the first thing is that just says draw a table what are activities that cause you pain what are activities that either take your pain away or are neutral write them all out now here is how you pattern recognize those all of those activities involve you bending backwards guess what change a light bulb overhead that triggers your pain we're starting to learn a little bit about what could the candidates be then we take them through some physical tests sit on a chair slouch extend drop one shoulder back hold five pounds out at front with arm straight so that's a compression test then we do a few self Shear tests then we do some nerve tensioning postures to start converging on subcategories of their pain”