I just came back from the gym after throwing my lower back out at the gym or straining my lower back. What happened was I maxed 315lbs for the first time and shortly completing the lift i started taking the plates off the bar so the next guy in line could go who was waiting.
While squating down to unrack the weights from the bar I sort of used my back to pull one of the plates up and screwed my back up. Hurts to stand straight and i have to hunch, hurts to walk and can’t run. Going to the doctor tomorrow but should i ice or heat right now?
That’s what i assumed, so ice first? Also i took some anti-inflammatory and i have no leg pain, so i did not blow a disc, also it’s localized the left lower side. So ice all day or alternate later?
hahah, and thanks for the massage advice airtruth.
[quote]JSopko wrote:
That’s what i assumed, so ice first? Also i took some anti-inflammatory and i have no leg pain, so i did not blow a disc, also it’s localized the left lower side. So ice all day or alternate later?
hahah, and thanks for the massage advice airtruth.[/quote]
You probably just strained a back muscle, I wouldnt worry about it. Definatley take some time off painfull excercises tho and heal up so you can keep setting those PR’s
The day before yesterday I broke my deadlift PB, my back felt ok immediatley after.
But yesterday I started to get pain in my lower back, especially when I layed down. I felt inflexible and I had a sharp pain when I layed on my side.
But today it’s not that bad. Despite hurting like hell for a while yesterday. Today i’ve rested it and it seems ok. So it is probably the same sort of thing, it might just sort itself out with a bit of rest.
I find that after a deadlift session, sometimes my lower back feels weakened and if I have bad posture - say i’m sat in a bad position for a while it get worse.
Ironically I did the same thing today. I was following Waterbury’s ABBH 1 doing 5x10 on DLs with 265, on the last rep of the second set something ?popped? in my lower back while I was locking out the weight. I thought I had good form (I try sticking to the form Ian King prescribes) but I guess I got sloppy because the next thing I know I can?t walk or move without pain.
It seems to me that rest and ice is about the only thing you can do besides NSAIDs at this stage.
[quote]JSopko wrote:
That’s what i assumed, so ice first? Also i took some anti-inflammatory and i have no leg pain, so i did not blow a disc, also it’s localized the left lower side.
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when my disk got a bit hurt my leg did not hurt either, but a lower back pain at the connection with the hip, was very intense. that place still feels weak and is the first thing to hurt if doing heavy d-lifts.
icing for 15min and letting it warm up some time before icing again is the method i read about…