View Full Version : can lifting weights cause scoliosis?
sabrosoed18
02-02-2010, 04:24 PM
Ive been wondering about this for a while. Sometimes when i pick up my curlbar from the floor with my max on it, i feel a pressure on my spine. The same thing happened 3 days ago and my back hurts a bit.
HALON
02-02-2010, 05:10 PM
Ive been wondering about this for a while. Sometimes when i pick up my curlbar from the floor with my max on it, i feel a pressure on my spine. The same thing happened 3 days ago and my back hurts a bit.
Yes lifting weights can cause scoliosis if you dont equally train both sides of your back.
Was your scoliosis diagnosed?
Are you sure you are lifting the bar correctly of the floor?
sounds like you are rounding your back when lifting the bar and creating pressure on the spine.
sabrosoed18
02-02-2010, 05:28 PM
Yes lifting weights can cause scoliosis if you dont equally train both sides of your back.
Was your scoliosis diagnosed?
Are you sure you are lifting the bar correctly of the floor?
sounds like you are rounding your back when lifting the bar and creating pressure on the spine.
It was never diagnosed. When i pick up the curlbar i do it in a squat motion. The only excersise i do to train my back and pull ups/chin ups
Will the pressure eventually cause scoliosis? Ive had the pain before when i performed crunches incorrectly but everything seemed fine afterwards.
HALON
02-02-2010, 06:11 PM
It was never diagnosed. When i pick up the curlbar i do it in a squat motion. The only excersise i do to train my back and pull ups/chin ups
Will the pressure eventually cause scoliosis? Ive had the pain before when i performed crunches incorrectly but everything seemed fine afterwards.
If it was never diagnosed how do you know its scoliosis?.Get your back checked out.
If you feel pressure on your spine it does not mean its scoliosis. It can be a lot of things. Pulled or injured muscle around the spine or a problem with the actual spine bones or discs. A true diagnosis of scoliosis is a curvature of the spine.
I would get your problem checked out.
HotGhettoMess
02-02-2010, 06:35 PM
I was diagnosed with scoliosis around my early teen years, but from my own personal experience, lifting weights improved my back quite a bit.
2write
02-02-2010, 09:37 PM
Sometimes when i pick up my curlbar from the floor with my max on it, i feel a pressure on my spine.
The simplest way I avoid such a stress on the back is to gradually increase the weights over a period of days and even weeks - ensuring form first.
It takes more time (like all good things :p ) but then it also guarantees that you would do your sets very well and go on to the big workouts in a controlled, stress-free way.
:)