Dr. Stuart McGill chairs the department of kinesiology directs the Spine Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
In the Spine Biomechanics Laboratory, Dr. McGill has three research objectives: to understand how the low back functions; to understand how it becomes injured; and, knowing this, formulate and investigate hypotheses related to prevention of injury and optimal rehabilitation of the injured back, and ultimate performance of the athletic back.