Here's how chronic back pain usually begins. You overdo it one day working in the yard or doing something else (glute muscles are often the culprit in LBP, btw). Instead of just backing-off, resting up a little, and realizing you'll be fully healed in a week or two, you worry and go to the doctor. The doctor performs MRIs and tells you the pain is likely due to your spine. The doctor sees something on your MRI which is common for most people as they age and usually not a problem and tells you that it's the cause of your pain. It was probably there long before you had any back pain. You worry more. The doctor's post hoc reasoning about your pain causes you to believe you have a damaged spine and you're stuck this way. Your pain now worsens and becomes chronic because you are afraid of moving. The doctor refers you to an orthopedist or a spine surgeon, etc.
My friend is a spine surgeon and says there's nothing to operate on in most of the chronic pain patients he sees. He refers them back to pain care. At most pain care clinics they give you antidepressants and muscle relaxants which make the problem worse.
If you want to get better, educate yourself about pain and ease back into the activities you were doing before. Otherwise, you won't get better. .
). Today I was at a "longboard" spot and my pop ups were fine, back feels fine. Maybe the deadlifts are working. I know Havoc give me shiite for my toddler weights but I'm doing what the MDs and PTs said- incrementally. I'm ready for my my next step but the plates are either out of stock or the ones in stock cost twice as much as the out of stock ones. I called my little sister, who I discovered months ago, to my surprise, had the whole set up- cage, bench and weights, to see if she could loan me 35 or 45 lb plates. And she was like, "..mmmmm Emma (my 17 year old niece) is working with a trainer right now and kind of needs them." So what Havoc says about the girly weights is true. My little niece is putting 35 and 45 lb plates on the bar and putting me to shame.
