11-13-2007, 12:25 AM
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#1 | | Just Joined
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| Lifting injury
Last Tuesday I was doing deadlifts, felt something go wrong, but kept going like an idiot. So... now I have this pain in my back. Here we go:
o -head
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!! -pain
0 - tailbone
/\ - legs
It's kind of dull, eases up when I lie down, kind of gets worse if i carry heavy things. Fencing seems to be fine.
Any ideas? I will stop lifting until after Thanksgiving, and I'll go to the doctor if it does not get better within a week. | 
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11-13-2007, 02:14 AM
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| 20 minutes heat, 20 minutes cold
Optional: Alcohol, vicoden, other perscription medication(Take as many as you want up to 7. Anna Nicole taught us that 7 is the limit)
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11-13-2007, 05:30 AM
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#3 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| I doubt that anyone will be so unwise as to venture a medical opinion. However, I have had something similar to thatthat.
Is the pain radiating down one or both legs? If so, get thee to a doctor and have it checked.
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11-13-2007, 12:38 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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| I occasionally get pains and aches from lifting. My main course of action is to triple my fish oil consumption, and to keep working the lift (though at a lower capacity, lighter weights, only half way to failure).
I'd be curious to ask whether or not you actually have a lifting coach. Heavy lifts require that you use better form (just for the sake of injury prevention), and knowing the difference between good and bad form is often difficult unless you've had someone to show you.
This is just a say-so, not the opinion of a medical professional.
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11-13-2007, 08:18 PM
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| Sciatica?
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11-14-2007, 07:25 PM
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| I don't know if it radiates... I think it's getting better but occasionally when it hurts, my right quad area will hurt too. I'm keeping up with very light exercise, walking around campus instead of bussing.
Inquartata - I will go to the doctor of this does not ease up by next wednesday - Thanksgiving break will be an opportune time, since I will not have to miss classes.
Hadouken - I'm very wary about doing back exercises while this is going on, though perhaps it's not bad advice. Fish oil, eh? I'll stock up when I go home for break. Thanks for the tip.
Veeco - Hopefully not, we'll see what doc says.
Trafl - I don't think painkillers are necessary, at least at this point. | |
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11-15-2007, 11:19 AM
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| i would consult a doctor before doing any of these poses but they may help you out: http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/fin...us/t_back_pain
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11-15-2007, 01:27 PM
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| I get that a lot, it's prolly just a pinched sciatic nerve, pop in to your local chiropractor, one or two sessions and you'll be right as rain, but the longer you put it off the worse it'll get. Chiropractors work miracles, im tellin ya | |
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11-16-2007, 01:32 PM
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| Just overdid the deadlifts. Probably a swelling due to lymph, pressing on some nerves, causing a little of that feeling you describe in the quad, or the quad is unrelated. Rest it for a week or so, and see a doc if you're really worried. Otherwise, consider just going lighter on the lift next time around until you get a little more advanced, or consider cross training that area by trying some other lifts for the area, such as good mornings (light, please), or a lower back iso machine (exp lifters have been known to scoff, since it's a machine, until they get in it and try it), or a nice session of back hyperextend (it's called that, but you aren't ACTUALLY supposed to hyperextend anything...it's the rack where you are bent over at the waist, facing down, then lift your upper body to level, not past, like so many do). Of course, this post does not constitute medical advice, and you should always consult a doctor before beginning or changing a exorcise program, including asking whether or not you are healthy enough for exorcize. All exorcise programs carry a risk of injury. (/end legal bit)
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