Bill DanielsOwner/trainer, Beyond Fitness online · Personal Trainer & Pain Science Expert Helping People Move Without Fear

Why "Clean" MRIs Don't Stop Back Pain 🛑 #Shorts

18 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker explains why many patients continue to experience lower‑back pain even after medical imaging (X‑rays, MRIs) shows no structural problems. He argues that the pain originates from a malfunction in the nervous‑system pathway that runs from the lower back up to the brain. Because pain perception is generated by the brain, altering the brain’s sensory inputs—what we see, hear, feel, balance, taste, and smell—can reset the system and reduce or eliminate the pain. The message is that pain is a brain‑generated experience and can be modulated by changing multisensory information.

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Pain is the most common one that we see. So oftentimes people will come to me and they'll say, oh, my lower back's been hurting. I went to the doctor, they did x-rays, MRIs, and they said there's nothing wrong and it still hurts. What's happening? Well, what's happening is that the system from the lower back all the way up to the brain is malfunctioning somehow, and we can fix that by giving the brain different inputs. So we experience everything that's all around us, right? We see things, we hear things, we even have our vestibular system here that tells our brain which way gravity's pulling us. We have what we feel, and even taste and smell can play a role in pain to some extent.