Forum: Injury Recovery And Prevention

I am 19 years old, male. I have been lifting for quite a long time (3 yrs or so), with breaks though. Anyway, around 2 months ago I was taking a shower and I tried to grab a towel. That's when I felt huge upper back (right side only) pain. It was so intense I couldn't breathe or walk due to the...

I do Lyle McDonald's GBR and I do squats once a week for 3 sets of 6-8 while I deadlift 3x5 on the second lower body day. Last Saturday, I did some heavy squatting and got some bad lower back doms that lasts up until today. I did a deadlift workout a couple days back but my soreness was hindering...

I hurt my wrist doing skullcrushers around the beginning of May last year, due to either bad form, working to failure, cardio on off days, or all of the above. I took three weeks off, and then discovered and started Stronglifts 5x5, dropping cardio completely, maybe hiking Saturdays. This new...

Hey guys, I've been nursing a lower back injury I've decided to take some time off for. My question is: is taking time off completely effectively the same in terms of recovery as still going to the gym and just doing exercises that don't load the spine? Or am I better off completely taking off...

I think i have a tendonitis in my left arm. It came after i started doing low bar squats. What can i do to recover as quick as possible? I really want to hit the weights again asap!

I had a stomachache two days ago, and couldn't workout for those two days. I probably lost a lot of water, and dehydrated. Couldn't eat, for one entire day and the second day was fairly mild. By Monday I could workout, on Tuesday was my chest day, did some bench press. Normally i can hit 255...

So long story short when i was younger probably 18 or 19 ( I'm 23 now) I use to do alot of benching on a smith machine at my house cause I had no spotter. Well ik this can cause shoulder issues and i remember really hurting my shoulder. But like a dumb kid just worked out through it and never got...

how come when im done doing bicep curls the middle of my arm like the part where the elbow is but not the elbow the part of the other side aches i feel like thats not supposed to happen

I initially injured my lower back in June 2018 while squatting 255 for 5 reps. Back then I was weighing 138lbs. I was kind of a beginner to the whole lifting scheme, as I had been working out for maybe 6 months. I went to the doctor and he said my back probably was just strained so he told me to...

Taking this week off working out due to a few injuries on my body from weights and Hockey. At this point are heat packs and sleep the way to go?

Hey so I have been having pain in my right shoulder like in the front, hurts alot if I press my fingers or get massage. Ive been doing heating/icing on it but it doesnt seem to help, im cutting right now so i really dont want to take time off.. all help is really appreciated!! The pain came out of...

On my way to the starting position I heard a crack in my rotator cuff and it wasn't tremendous so i continued to work out. Month later it continues to give me problems and affects sleep quality. Figured a doctor would tell me to rest. I have been using mostly machine presses since to eliminate...

Hello, Don't know what the hell I did while I was sleeping but I woke up in the morning with a wry neck, a couple of days ago. It's not like I can't move my neck, but when I turn my head to the right it hurts and can't turn much. Today is rest day, but tomorrow is leg training. Do you guys...

My left patellar tendon hurts right now, not sure why but I think it's due to knees caving in from squatting a while ago, and this is causing me to shift to the right side on squats. My right leg & glute is bigger than my left and I'm trying to get this fixed so I can return to squatting again. So...

Hi guys, new to this forum. Yesterday I had shoulder injury while working out chest on cross machine. My shoulder poped out and came back all in 0.5 sec and hurts like medium now. I can rotate it all the way but I am afraid of further injuryes and want to know how to treat this one. Also a few...

I am a 17-year-old female who plays soccer year round. In June of 2017, I was diagnosed with a patellar bone contusion that turned into a hairline fracture (Left knee) due to my ignoring medical professionals advice and playing instead of resting. In July of 2018, I was diagnosed with plica...

Hey all, made this account so i could ask this. Sorry i don’t have forum etiquette or whatever. Last week I started to feel a sharp pain in my upper back, not sure when or how it started. I workout regularly at least 5 days a week and I just figured maybe I pulled it or slept on it wrong and...