irishdave
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Since last thursday my lower back was niggling me slightly, I hurt it when I swung a 35kg dumbbell up to my shoulder to do seated shoulder presses. (Had no spotter at home, I know - silly!). Anyhow, I felt something go a little in my lower back but I had no pain so continued exercises and finished off with some DB snatches.
For the whole of last week I had slight niggling pain in my lower right side (buttocks/SI joint area). Last night I stupidly decided I was feeling okay after a warmup and decided to do deadlifts. I decided to go light enough, as I hadn't been doing much deads anyways lately, mostly squats. So, I warmup with the bar, 60kg, then 80kg, then a set of 100kg. Then I do a set of 130kg, still keeping it light, and on the 3rd rep I felt it. Dropped the bar and knew I was in trouble.
I stopped training and made an appointment with a chiropractor who my mother knew who obligingly took me at short notice about 9.30pm. I'd never been to a chiro before and her call on it was that it was ligaments around my lower butt area. Upon further research online I can seem to pinpoint it being my SI joint ligaments. The pain only hurts when I bent over. I've been doing some yoga exercises since last night and it's really helping. Also been applying Voltoral gel, taking Floridix magnesium oil and udo's oil to help me and icing it loads.
One other thing. This same thing happened to me about a year ago to the month. I was doing deads with a much heavier weight because I'd been doing them as my core exercise at the time. Never had any pain in my back then one day didn't warm up properly and I was in agony. 2 weeks later I was fine and went for it again and it hurt again so I laid off the deads for a few months. Now I'm not at all as sore this time, not even close, and I think the last injury was on my LEFT side, in the same area though. I never bothered going to a chiro or a physio at the time because it just "went away" if you know what I mean.
Has anybody got any experience with this type of injury? I'm probably worrying too much, but I am hoping it's something that people can recover from completely?
I never had this problem doing squats, only deads. I use a conventional deadlift but I'm pretty tall (6'5"), so considering switching to sumo style when I get better and gradually building the weight up again.
Any input appreciated, cheers.
For the whole of last week I had slight niggling pain in my lower right side (buttocks/SI joint area). Last night I stupidly decided I was feeling okay after a warmup and decided to do deadlifts. I decided to go light enough, as I hadn't been doing much deads anyways lately, mostly squats. So, I warmup with the bar, 60kg, then 80kg, then a set of 100kg. Then I do a set of 130kg, still keeping it light, and on the 3rd rep I felt it. Dropped the bar and knew I was in trouble.
I stopped training and made an appointment with a chiropractor who my mother knew who obligingly took me at short notice about 9.30pm. I'd never been to a chiro before and her call on it was that it was ligaments around my lower butt area. Upon further research online I can seem to pinpoint it being my SI joint ligaments. The pain only hurts when I bent over. I've been doing some yoga exercises since last night and it's really helping. Also been applying Voltoral gel, taking Floridix magnesium oil and udo's oil to help me and icing it loads.
One other thing. This same thing happened to me about a year ago to the month. I was doing deads with a much heavier weight because I'd been doing them as my core exercise at the time. Never had any pain in my back then one day didn't warm up properly and I was in agony. 2 weeks later I was fine and went for it again and it hurt again so I laid off the deads for a few months. Now I'm not at all as sore this time, not even close, and I think the last injury was on my LEFT side, in the same area though. I never bothered going to a chiro or a physio at the time because it just "went away" if you know what I mean.
Has anybody got any experience with this type of injury? I'm probably worrying too much, but I am hoping it's something that people can recover from completely?
I never had this problem doing squats, only deads. I use a conventional deadlift but I'm pretty tall (6'5"), so considering switching to sumo style when I get better and gradually building the weight up again.
Any input appreciated, cheers.
