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You're right. I didn't want to have to admit this but you got me. The truth is to fix any physical ailment you just need to apply a 1:1 mixture of turmeric and CBD oil to the area and then shoot yourself in the balls with a theragun... preferably the new 24K Gold G3PRO Edition. You'll forget all about your back because turmeric and CBD oil are magic. Repeat as needed.
I thought we had agreed to call what llilibel and myself have described as "muscle spasms". I think you are right that "trigger point" is not a doctors term instead it is a term made up by masseurs to ply their trade.
The amount of discussion that the massage of spasms is getting here I feel is disproportionate in its role in fixing backs. Llilibel even said it made him worse. I go as far as "I think it helps", helps as in to calm down the spasm and maybe even have a slight knock on benefit to the well being of my back.
Respectfully, I wouldn't give a person advice on treating advanced heart disease and your doctor is obviously not qualified to give advice on strength and training.
Some places you press into muscle and it hurts and other places it doesn't hurt.
The "trigger points and adhesions" syndromes are much different than tension. There are predators making claims that somehow peoples muscle fibers turn into balls of immobile tissue with the only cure being magic hands. It's nonsense.
Knowing this, the best course of practice would logically be to accept that pain is pain, and whatever a person defines as a painful experience is that persons pain. We don't need to come up with a reason for lower back pain for practice, nor is it particularly important or useful to find the root cause of lower back pain. When you do it leads the clinician or therapist to impose their perception of pain on the person seeking treatment which takes us down the path of endlessly trying to explain the unexplainable, rather than get a person healthy again.
reading accounts of back pain on this thread shows a diversity of causes.
I have not really been lifting weights other than adding 10 lb dumbbells to some of my exercises. All the MDs and PTs said weight lifting was good but all recommended to start when the pain was gone. So I've been doing mostly body weight stuff. And stretching. I do the stretch you recommended but it's still feels sketchy- hips still tight and when I creep forward with my fingers I always reach a point where my lower back twinges that makes me back off.
