Holy cow, it’s crazy to see how some people grow up and develop around here! Way to go, @j4gga2!
As you can see, I was browsing the back injury section. I’ve been in pain pretty much 24/7 for three years. It’s not an injury necessarily, but it’s obviously not right. The best way I can describe it is that the tissue (not sure what) that seems to be on top (skin/surface side) of my sacrum hurts. It aches constantly. I can achieve sharp pain if I extend or hyperextend my lumbar spine. I can do this lying in bed. This is the area that I feel pain when I officially mess up my lower back deadlifting or squatting. When that happens, I think my L5 rotates and the right side of my pelvis shifts up and forward slightly. I can usually fix that with a couple trips to the chiro over about two weeks and then I’m off and running again…until now.
Here’s what I’ve tried to address the daily pain:
- rest with no change so I stop resting
- manual therapy at my PT which has helped but only a tiny bit
- I did visit my PT four to five times over about that many weeks for full blown visits but I felt the only improvement came from the manual therapy. For that reason, I’ve opted to go in and pay cash for that alone. I’ve had about six visits over the past 2.5 months (they’re busy and my schedule is limited).
And that brings me to my current official injury. I had the same feeling while squatting 2.5 weeks ago (April 28th), but this time it feels like I also strained a muscle. I think it’s my QL. Prior to the injury I had been feeling like the same area was on the verge of cramping or straining while performing heavy squats. It felt like it might have affected my obliques as well, but I may just underestimate how high the QL goes (or technically starts). The “strain” is slowly getting better and I was happy to see you share this:
I’m still well within the guidelines you posted. But as my QL region feels better, I’m starting to feel the junk “on” my sacrum again. The only muscle I know of in the area is the erector spinae but it confuses me to only have pain in the area of insertion instead of along the whole muscle.
What are your thoughts? More rest? Back to PT as an official patient including all the exercises?
I only recently came back to the forum and was shocked when I looked back at my history to see that my last “injury” occurred three years ago. I didn’t realize I’d been tolerating this for so long. I have a great PT here, but I’m curious what someone else might have to say about the matter. The reality is that PT twice a week gets expensive fast on a teaching salary.