[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Your back injury has lingered for 6+ months? You said you can’t go to a doctor, but did you check with your doc after his 4-6 week timeframe passed and you weren’t any closer to healing? [/quote]
Yes exactly, it stopped being inconvenient in my day to day life after about a month, then the healing began to slow down, then pretty much stalled. It is lingering. I went to the doctor 1-3 days after it happened, and did what he told me. Then if I remember correctly I posted about the injury here a couple months later (vague date) and someone (probably you) told me to go again. Yes I eventually went again, my doctor didn’t tell me anything. (He is only a GP) I told him that I began foam rolling and it gives me strong temporary relief. All he said was “Does it make it feel better?” “Yes.” “Keep doing it.” He referred me to a specialist but my family can’t afford it, this is why I am trying to solve things myself to the best of my knowledge.
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Dude, you need to be proactive about your recovery, not just be eager to get back to squatting three days a week. Get back to where you can do full range push-ups, pull-ups, bodyweight squats, and full range toe touches without pain, and then think about lifting. [/quote]
I can do all of these things comfortably.
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Disbelief being the key word here, as apparently it was a band-aid solution that didn’t “cure” anything. We should try not to do that again.
A 100% healthy body has zero discomfort and zero pain. At 16, that’s where you should want to be. If you’re feeling discomfort/pain, you’re not fully healed, period. Tissue quality work (foam rolling, treating mobility drills as important as oxygen, etc.) should become part of your new daily routine. A handful of drills, 10-15 minutes a day everyday, to hit the whole body would be a start. [/quote]
My parents told me it was a muscular pain, I didn’t believe them (stupid me). I had all the symptoms of having a muscular pain, it completely went away when I was running around doing sport having a bit of a pump, then would come back when I began resting. Strength training made it hurt more in the short term (directly after training) but as the days, and weeks went by my lower back strengthened and the pain went away.
What sort of drills should I do? I did a few sets of 100m sprints, and hill sprints at my park for a while but I don’t know I got bored because I just enjoy deadlifts and squats. Don’t think they would help my back any way I was doing them in an attempt to preserve lower body strength. What sort of mobility work should I be doing? My holy grail would be if I knew what muscle it was, but I don’t. It isn’t a surface muscle because I feel absolutely nothing from a massage, unless someone digs their entire elbow in to my back with their body weight. It is a deep muscle. It begins in my mid back and goes up my thoracic spine. I spent countless hours comparing my area of pain to anatomy drawings and reading articles/threads and I nailed it down to 2-3 possible muscles which I saved in a text document somewhere. Though nothing concrete obviously. The best stretch I can get for the muscle is extending my left arm, twisting my torso to the right, then reaching and bending forward as much as I can. This still feels very indirect, I don’t feel as much as I think I should.
[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Also, consider some yoga. No joke. It’d be a decent combo of stretching and activity as long as you stick within your capabilities. Either find some beginners lessons online or see if you can find a local class to score a free trial. [/quote]
Will look in to this. Do you know any good sources for yoga routines? I would prefer to do it at home.
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Undertand that if you don’t legitimately fix this 100%, it can be something that sticks with you as a problem for years. It’s undoubtedly worth putting in the time to correct it now.[/quote]
I understand. To the best of my knowledge, cautiously starting gym again would be of benefit to me. The squats that I did to prior to this thread felt good. I could go so far as to saying that my back felt better the subsequent days but its too early to be certain.