Advil
Lying on the couch for a week
Contrast Showers
Hot Tub
Body weight back raises
Front squats (after pain mostly subsided)
Glute activation like x band walks
Advil
Lying on the couch for a week
Contrast Showers
Hot Tub
Body weight back raises
Front squats (after pain mostly subsided)
Glute activation like x band walks
What made it worse:
Rack Pulls
Shrugs
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By BW back raises, do you mean hyperextensions? I do contrast showers too, but I don’t think they help. They just take away some DOMS, but that’s just me.
[quote]undeadlift wrote:
JoeG254 wrote:
Back Injury
What helped:
Advil
Lying on the couch for a week
Contrast Showers
Hot Tub
Body weight back raises
Front squats (after pain mostly subsided)
Glute activation like x band walks
What made it worse:
Rack Pulls
Shrugs
By BW back raises, do you mean hyperextensions? I do contrast showers too, but I don’t think they help. They just take away some DOMS, but that’s just me.[/quote]
INJURY: Hips feeling like they were being stabbed to death while squatting (sumo pulls were fine!)
WHAT HELPED:
-wearing briefs til it went away
-taking my stance in to about shoulder width
-mobility drills ala magnificent mobility
-stretching the hell out of my piriformis (the number one help)
WHAT MADE IT WORSE:
-trying to push thru the pain. I did this a few times and regretted it afterwards
WHAT HELPED:
-Forcing myself to walk on it
-Wearing Nike Free 3.0’s or no shoes
-Wide stance!
-Eversion, inversion, toe raises
WHAT HURT:
-Loaded dorsiflexion (front squats, step ups)
This is a bitch of an injury, but I squat and deadlift wide almost pain free. If anyone else has strength trained through a sprained ankle, I’d love to hear about it. It’s been about a month and a half and I can’t do sprints yet.
That’s kinda paradoxical. Your back can’t handle jump squats but snatches are OK? But what do I know? I never had an injury before. Keeping track of this thread would be interesting. I hope more people would post. Would you compile these things after?
Tore two ligaments in my ankle, tore my calf:
Helped: RICE method, not running, crutches, therapy, balance drills, one legged bodyweight squats.
Hurt: Squatting, Running
Tore Hamstring:
Helped: Walking, ice, massage, static stretching, bodyweight lunges
Hurt: Squatting, attempting to do box jumps as a way to recovery, running.
Tore 3 tendons in my wrist, waited 3 months to get fixed, still had glass in my wrist, was absolutely retarded:
Helped: not doing any Max Effort work, 8 weeks of therapy, sand bucket gripping (put hand in bucket of sand and just grip the sand), light dumbell rotations
Hurt: Pressing motions or anything heavy using my wrist. This injury was a major downer on my lifting
Dislocated Shoulder:
Helped: rest for a few days, ice, after the soreness went away I started doing girl push-ups and eventually was able to do regular push-ups and then light-weight pressing motion for weights.
[quote]Bartleby83 wrote:
You only want training relatet injuries i think? Or every injury like a dislocated finger or a rupture of the cruciate ligament of knee?[/quote]
Any injury that affects your ability to weightlift. I think even the dislocated finger would count. We take our little joints for granted.
Since this is injury thread I’d figure I’d list one of my recent ones that is annoying-others should too-, all past ones are boring and really just rest has helped them from as little as one week to month-ICE,stretching, and hot tubes is all I did for them it worked perfectly-
I have this weird injury in my left chest feel pain on the bone, I can do all my workouts fine it just feels sharp pinch when I move my left arm certain ways.
Anyone else experience something similar to this? I have had it for about a month have not worried since I can still workout fine-over head pressing slightly bothers it though- but its pretty annoying especially when I wake up I feel it quite a bit just by relaxing my arms.
I think I might have hairline fracture but I’m not sure
Wow, I have had so many injuries I could make my own epic thread.
Before I started training, I had a concussion from a water-skiing fall and many sprained ankles and sprained fingers from basketball.
But these are the major ones I can remember in chronological order. (Other than the rotator cuff, I had no training injuries my first 5 years of training. All the other injuries happened after age 30.)
ROTATOR CUFF, 3 months after I started lifting
WHAT HELPED: standard external rotation stuff
WHAT HURT: all upper body exercises
BROKEN RIBS from being hit by a car
WHAT HELPED: nothing really. Time. Compression belt made it feel better temporarily.
WHAT HURT: everything. Opening doors. Carrying stuff. Breathing. Couldn’t lie on back or get up from lying position.
-HERNIATED CERVICAL/THORACIC DISC, caused neuropathy in arm and cubital tunnel syndrome in elbow
WHAT HELPED: don’t really know for sure, I did so much stuff. This was a 9-12 month major injury. Egoscue’s stuff, wearing an elbow brace at night, and making my computer workstation more ergonomic all probably helped as it SLOWLY healed.
WHAT DIDN’T HELP: chiropractic, ART, Wobenzym, any supplements, my medical plan’s PT. I rejected surgeon’s recommendation of surgery to move the nerve in my elbow.
WHAT HURT: any movement of my hand or fingers.
HERNIATED LUMBAR DISCS, caused 3 months total disability & 5 years chronic pain
WHAT HELPED: Stuart McGill’s book, Egoscue’s static back position with ice pack, avoiding flexion, Zostrix HP, walking
WHAT DIDN’T HELP: chiropractic, ART, my medical plan’s PT. Rejected discectomy surgery based on research.
WHAT HURT: absolutely everything
MAJOR PIRIFORMIS TEAR (18 months ago)
WHAT HELPED: VICODIN, muscle relaxants, and ibuprofen (note I am getting smarter at how I deal with injuries!), soft tissue work
WHAT MAYBE HELPED: acupuncture (never thought I’d go there, and wouldn’t have had to if the docs would just give me MORE VICODIN)
WHAT HURT: standing, walking, bending
ELBOW TENDINITIS (in arm w/ neuropathy)
WHAT HELPED: ice, ibuprofen, triceps and scap retraction work, thoracic foam rolling, couple Egoscue moves
WHAT HURT: throwing ball for dogs with Chuck-it launcher, grasping and picking things up, archery
CUT FOOT, sounds minor but I sliced a chunk off the top of my foot at the base of the big toe last September. It got infected and took forever to heal, and several courses of different antibiotics. I could not put any weight on it for months. I still have pain and reduced ROM in flexion of that big toe. Just recently able to wear normal shoes again.
LESSON LEARNED: don’t ever cut your foot. But if you do, wash and bandage it BEFORE going to the doctor to get it stitched.
The spinal injuries were by far more painful and disabling than the other injuries and took longer to heal.