For almost 40 years, Dr. Stuart McGill has been working to bring those numbers down. The professor emeritus from Canada’s University of Waterloo and Chief Scientific Officer of BackFitPro has ...

Both traditional sit-ups and planks risk compressing the spine, says Dr. Stuart McGill, a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo. McGill shows a safer technique to CBC's Kim ...

A Canadian professor of spine biomechanics rails about the dangers of the ubiquitous sit-up After three decades of figuring how out the spine works, Stuart McGill has come to loathe sit-ups.