Low Back Pain and Working Out (IMPORTANT)
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Date: 2022-04-22
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Gebel
Thank you for the video, hopefully, my lower back will become good again. I damaged my lower back about 1. 5 years ago doing lower Back Extensions with a lot of weight in my arms, i had done it before a lot of times but after this one time i was in so much pain when i woke up that i had a hard time walking so i ended up not going to school that day. I rested that whole day and felt alot better but still untill this day i sometimes feel that i have damaged my lower back and about 3-4 times i've felt like a lightning strike hit my lower back when i was working out trying to not even use my lower back.
I've been to a doctor that looked at my back and said that when i get the pain in my lower back its because i've overworked the muscles. Im really scared to do squats and other exercises because of my lower back and i really have no idea how to prevent it from happening again and fully restore it. So if you or anyone else here could help me out in any way by maybe dropping some comments on what i could do or even contact me personaly, i would appreciate it!
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Thank you for the video, hopefully, my lower back will become good again. I damaged my lower back about 1. 5 years ago doing lower Back Extensions with a lot of weight in my arms, i had done it before a lot of times but after this one time i was in so much pain when i woke up that i had a hard time walking so i ended up not going to school that day. I rested that whole day and felt alot better but still untill this day i sometimes feel that i have damaged my lower back and about 3-4 times i've felt like a lightning strike hit my lower back when i was working out trying to not even use my lower back.
I've been to a doctor that looked at my back and said that when i get the pain in my lower back its because i've overworked the muscles. Im really scared to do squats and other exercises because of my lower back and i really have no idea how to prevent it from happening again and fully restore it. So if you or anyone else here could help me out in any way by maybe dropping some comments on what i could do or even contact me personaly, i would appreciate it!
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Francis
Jeff,
Great video! This is encouraging to hear! I herniated L5-S1 a little over a year ago. I had terrible sciatica. I mean, I could barely drive to work without crying, or screaming in pain. I only live 2. 7 miles from work, and it takes 10 minutes. After physical therapy for four months, and finally, an epidural, I finally started to move again. I started with swimming. More physical therapy. Then, I lifted with my upper body. Now, I'm back to squatting heavy again. I was about to start deadlfting again, until I saw this video. Now, I'll focus on engaging my lower back, re-engaging the muscles, working on stamina and the mind-muscle connection. I thought, even after starting to squat again, that I would never DL again. But after watching you do your pause squats at 315, knowing how much knee pain you're in, and seeing this video, maybe one day, I will be able to DL again.
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Jeff,
Great video! This is encouraging to hear! I herniated L5-S1 a little over a year ago. I had terrible sciatica. I mean, I could barely drive to work without crying, or screaming in pain. I only live 2. 7 miles from work, and it takes 10 minutes. After physical therapy for four months, and finally, an epidural, I finally started to move again. I started with swimming. More physical therapy. Then, I lifted with my upper body. Now, I'm back to squatting heavy again. I was about to start deadlfting again, until I saw this video. Now, I'll focus on engaging my lower back, re-engaging the muscles, working on stamina and the mind-muscle connection. I thought, even after starting to squat again, that I would never DL again. But after watching you do your pause squats at 315, knowing how much knee pain you're in, and seeing this video, maybe one day, I will be able to DL again.
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jarry
SO sick of my damn back. It gets in the way so much. I am 45, jus started going to the gym 6 months ago. I have pinched nerves and spinal stenosis in my lower spine. Was always afraid of deadlifts. So after a few months I try some, goes good for the first few reps and then. SNAP. I swore I would never do them again. So today, which is a few months later, I try DL again. Put 160 on it ( I know, sissy weight to most of you, and it feels pretty easy, second set. SNAP. I try to remember so many damn Q's that I have learned, thinking way too much. What sucks is that the weight was not even hard, it was coming up easy. but this damn back. ugh. I know it is my form, but I have tried to do everything I have learned, and I just can not seem to stop getting hurt, and that sets me back on all the other lifts for a week or more.
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SO sick of my damn back. It gets in the way so much. I am 45, jus started going to the gym 6 months ago. I have pinched nerves and spinal stenosis in my lower spine. Was always afraid of deadlifts. So after a few months I try some, goes good for the first few reps and then. SNAP. I swore I would never do them again. So today, which is a few months later, I try DL again. Put 160 on it ( I know, sissy weight to most of you, and it feels pretty easy, second set. SNAP. I try to remember so many damn Q's that I have learned, thinking way too much. What sucks is that the weight was not even hard, it was coming up easy. but this damn back. ugh. I know it is my form, but I have tried to do everything I have learned, and I just can not seem to stop getting hurt, and that sets me back on all the other lifts for a week or more.
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1stfloorguy
I have been doing stretches for glutes and lower back for weeks because I injured my back about 7-8 years ago and i have been trying to get ready to work on the pipeline. I was bound to desk jobs and all that was doing was making it worse the past 5 years. Albeit it has not hurt like the first 2 months of injury but still constant uncomfortable pain. nothing really helping out my pain until a few days ago I started doing light weight dead lifts just a 45lb plate each side. Huge improvement in my lower back pain. Edit I also do a wide stance sumo pull while looking at the cieling and my ass way down to the floor. it's much safer on the back imo
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I have been doing stretches for glutes and lower back for weeks because I injured my back about 7-8 years ago and i have been trying to get ready to work on the pipeline. I was bound to desk jobs and all that was doing was making it worse the past 5 years. Albeit it has not hurt like the first 2 months of injury but still constant uncomfortable pain. nothing really helping out my pain until a few days ago I started doing light weight dead lifts just a 45lb plate each side. Huge improvement in my lower back pain. Edit I also do a wide stance sumo pull while looking at the cieling and my ass way down to the floor. it's much safer on the back imo
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Yaser
Hey I need your help and I hope you read my message.
I lost fluid at l5 of my lower back one month ago, I think it-s happened because of over training but I did right form, I drink water daily minimum 2 litters, sleep minimum 6 hours daily, exercise regularly 4-6 times a week. I love being healthy and it-s my habit.
Now, as what doctor told me that I-m not allowed to do running, jumping, swimming by back and weight lifting, but Since from last week I feel less pain.
All I can do walking and scratching to relief lower back pain.
My question is any workout that I can perform intensity without impact lower back?
Thanks,
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Hey I need your help and I hope you read my message.
I lost fluid at l5 of my lower back one month ago, I think it-s happened because of over training but I did right form, I drink water daily minimum 2 litters, sleep minimum 6 hours daily, exercise regularly 4-6 times a week. I love being healthy and it-s my habit.
Now, as what doctor told me that I-m not allowed to do running, jumping, swimming by back and weight lifting, but Since from last week I feel less pain.
All I can do walking and scratching to relief lower back pain.
My question is any workout that I can perform intensity without impact lower back?
Thanks,
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Bernard
Jeff, The injury I have had now for 2. 5 years is mid back right along the spine on the right side, I believe its the latissimus dorsi insertion point in the spine or the posterior serratus or the facia. I have never let it heal as I continue to train with the traditional heavy lifts, and I re-injure it every few months. What exercises should I avoid or include? It has gotten to the point where even heavy barbell curls are a painful. The injury occurred while I was squatting on a smith machine and I had my feet positioned way to far in front of my body, with the weight jerking my mid back as I came down. Please help. Thanks
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Jeff, The injury I have had now for 2. 5 years is mid back right along the spine on the right side, I believe its the latissimus dorsi insertion point in the spine or the posterior serratus or the facia. I have never let it heal as I continue to train with the traditional heavy lifts, and I re-injure it every few months. What exercises should I avoid or include? It has gotten to the point where even heavy barbell curls are a painful. The injury occurred while I was squatting on a smith machine and I had my feet positioned way to far in front of my body, with the weight jerking my mid back as I came down. Please help. Thanks
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Lone-Wolf-XCII
It is so scary getting back into weight training after strictly doing calisthenics for three years - even though I used to do powerlifting and bodybuilding.
I feel short, dull pains in my lower and middle back (they seem to be very precise and focused pains) occasionally now that I have went back to weight training in the last two weeks.
I stopped weight training because of these pains and some sciatica-like pain in my lower back/upper glutes (hopefully only inflamed piriformis muscles.
I really am not sure if I should see a physiotherapist or and exercise physiologist for a full-body assessment.
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It is so scary getting back into weight training after strictly doing calisthenics for three years - even though I used to do powerlifting and bodybuilding.
I feel short, dull pains in my lower and middle back (they seem to be very precise and focused pains) occasionally now that I have went back to weight training in the last two weeks.
I stopped weight training because of these pains and some sciatica-like pain in my lower back/upper glutes (hopefully only inflamed piriformis muscles.
I really am not sure if I should see a physiotherapist or and exercise physiologist for a full-body assessment.
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Pepi's
Loved the information from this video. Could you please do a few more and incorporate different exercises targeting various muscle groups. I have a horizontal Roman chair and have found it very helpful for my back. Unfortunately for me being able to go to a gym is not possible so I have invested in some exercise equipment to allow me to get back some fitness from years of doing very little. After 60 years of hard knocks to my body taking small steps to gain more flexibility works for me. Thanks for all your fantastic videos I love them keep going. Mark Geiger Queensland Australia.
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Loved the information from this video. Could you please do a few more and incorporate different exercises targeting various muscle groups. I have a horizontal Roman chair and have found it very helpful for my back. Unfortunately for me being able to go to a gym is not possible so I have invested in some exercise equipment to allow me to get back some fitness from years of doing very little. After 60 years of hard knocks to my body taking small steps to gain more flexibility works for me. Thanks for all your fantastic videos I love them keep going. Mark Geiger Queensland Australia.
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Super
I will try this, I got my lower back injury from digging trenches, wearing too heavy of a backpack, usually with too many fishing supplies, and finally the cherry on top was, going too heavy for my core frame, while curling, I work with genetically bigger guys, and I try to lift more than them because I'm skinny and just have different types of muscles than them, I do this to try and keep up in size, I stopped doing that like 10 months ago, I don't lift, Just Tae Kwon Do and Boxing exercises. but just sitting upright hurts it and doesn't allow it to heal! Thanks for the Video!
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I will try this, I got my lower back injury from digging trenches, wearing too heavy of a backpack, usually with too many fishing supplies, and finally the cherry on top was, going too heavy for my core frame, while curling, I work with genetically bigger guys, and I try to lift more than them because I'm skinny and just have different types of muscles than them, I do this to try and keep up in size, I stopped doing that like 10 months ago, I don't lift, Just Tae Kwon Do and Boxing exercises. but just sitting upright hurts it and doesn't allow it to heal! Thanks for the Video!
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Johnny
I don't know, man. If you've had a serious lumbar-area spasm and/or impinged nerve(s, you're not going to start with those quasi-partial extensions. Using your entire torso weight would be far too much, believe me. Would you not be better to first start with some of the hip mobility and hip strengthening exercises Jeff demonstrates in other videos? I'd like to see a complete, inclusive video covering the full reaction to a lower back injury, from initial stretching to the very first light resistance body-training exercises (since so many of us experience this.
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I don't know, man. If you've had a serious lumbar-area spasm and/or impinged nerve(s, you're not going to start with those quasi-partial extensions. Using your entire torso weight would be far too much, believe me. Would you not be better to first start with some of the hip mobility and hip strengthening exercises Jeff demonstrates in other videos? I'd like to see a complete, inclusive video covering the full reaction to a lower back injury, from initial stretching to the very first light resistance body-training exercises (since so many of us experience this.
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