Deadlift lower back injury

InsanePain11 · 06-10-2008, 05:16 AM

2 months ago I was warming up on deadlifts during leg day. I usually use good form but I lost focus and didn't use enough legs. I thought I heard a pop or crack maybe, then I could barely stand up. It doesn't hurt a lot but it is uncomfortable still. Luckily I can still workout my upper body, and on leg day I still do presses, extentions, curls. I feel like I should probably rest but I cannot stay out of the gym.

Any advice/diagnosis would be greatly appreciated!

jdmalm123 · 06-10-2008, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by InsanePain11

2 months ago I was warming up on deadlifts during leg day. I usually use good form but I lost focus and didn't use enough legs. I thought I heard a pop or crack maybe, then I could barely stand up. It doesn't hurt a lot but it is uncomfortable still. Luckily I can still workout my upper body, and on leg day I still do presses, extentions, curls. I feel like I should probably rest but I cannot stay out of the gym.

Any advice/diagnosis would be greatly appreciated!

Last time I heard a pop in my low back, it was a disc herniating...and I ended up having spine surgery. The good news, is I was able to work up to a 405x1 deadlift @ 190 BW.

However, you should be very careful with low-back intensive exercises from now on. If the pain gets progressively worse or ends up radiatiing down your leg or causing numbness, tingling, pins & needles, burning, coldness, etc, that would be indicitive of a nerve impingement. If you get to that point, get an MRI and feel free to PM me if you want more details about my spine surgery and treatments I tried leading up to it...

Hopefully, it's just a bad sprain and you'll be fine in 4-6 weeks if you go easy and RICE it.

InsanePain11 · 06-10-2008, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by jdmalm123

Last time I heard a pop in my low back, it was a disc herniating...and I ended up having spine surgery. The good news, is I was able to work up to a 405x1 deadlift @ 190 BW.

However, you should be very careful with low-back intensive exercises from now on. If the pain gets progressively worse or ends up radiatiing down your leg or causing numbness, tingling, pins & needles, burning, coldness, etc, that would be indicitive of a nerve impingement. If you get to that point, get an MRI and feel free to PM me if you want more details about my spine surgery and treatments I tried leading up to it...

Hopefully, it's just a bad sprain and you'll be fine in 4-6 weeks if you go easy and RICE it.

Thanks a lot man! Yea hopefully its not a disk, but I'm really worried it could be. I better take it easy, although it is very hard to stay out of the gym.

arkskier · 06-17-2008, 06:37 PM

that's scary. did you allow your lower back to curve as you lifted?

Lax891122 · 06-17-2008, 06:40 PM

Orthopedic Doctors/Specialists> BB.com

No one can diagnose even remotely correctly without examining you. Ive seen people who thought they had pulled hip flexors who really had some nasty strains.. like myself.

omnicore · 06-18-2008, 09:56 AM

I strained my back really bad but I found a good chiropractor to help get things worked out back there. They did electric stimulation and massaged it.