Injury: Lower back injury
Cause: Deadlifting when sick & generally unhappy/with poor form
What helped:
-time: a year
-having a positive outlook on my injury(this is huge)
-keeping in the iron to stay confident
-self myofascial release
-Keeping active with walks/sports(although it was reaggrivated from time to time from these, it was worth it)
What hurt:
-leg press, back squats, deadlifts
-stretching of all kinds
-having a stressful relationship
Injury: Right knee pain
What helped:
-seemingly nothing
what hurt:
-sitting with my legs crossed in the ‘manly way’, aka: one ankle up on the other thigh near the knee.
Injury: chronic neck pain
Cause: pillow was too thick
what helped:
-neck training with a head harness
-getting thinner pillow
-neck stretches
Injury: Overloaded calves
Cause: Ankle sprain (inversion) → Overload of gastroc/soleus → Lots of trigger points
What helped:
-‘The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook’. Self myofascial release, by trigger points (at least 4x daily initially)
-Running barefoot on grass/using Nike Free 3.0
What hurt:
-Doing any significant volume on the track.
-Playing sports.
What didn’t help:
-Ibuprofen
-Months of rest
-Physio (‘rest it and do these exercises’)
-Continuing training with a strapped foot after ankle sprain, and then suddenly raising volume.
-Lateral movement in nike free 5.0 (big heel lift, no support, easy to twist ankle in).
[quote]Hanley wrote:
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[/quote]
Hanley you sick son of a bitch, all these injuries and still whoopin ass alright! Did you cause this injury while coming out of the hole on a heavy squat? I know i had pretty much the same thing i think your describing, just dropped weight and had legs really close and worked reps for about a month or two until i could go heavy again.
-Following thread: “misplaced” collarbone (whatever that is)
WHAT HELPED:
-not benching
-limited movement of shoulder
-band work when arm movement came back
WHAT MADE IT WORSE:
-squatting ( reaching to grab the bar put alot of stress)
-chest and shoulder movements
-sleeping on that side of my body
INJURY:
lower back due to rounded back on a heavy deadlift
WHAT HELPED:
HEAT & ICE CONTRAST
FISH OIL
ADVIL
TIME
FOAM ROLLER
SWITCHING TO ONLY ISOLATION LIFTS FOR 6+MONTHS
CORE WORK
WHAT MADE IT WORSE:
my mindset of a powerlifter
[quote]el0gic wrote:
Injury: Overloaded calves
Cause: Ankle sprain (inversion) → Overload of gastroc/soleus → Lots of trigger points
What helped:
-‘The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook’. Self myofascial release, by trigger points (at least 4x daily initially)
-Running barefoot on grass/using Nike Free 3.0
What hurt:
-Doing any significant volume on the track.
-Playing sports.
What didn’t help:
-Ibuprofen
-Months of rest
-Physio (‘rest it and do these exercises’)
-Continuing training with a strapped foot after ankle sprain, and then suddenly raising volume.
-Lateral movement in nike free 5.0 (big heel lift, no support, easy to twist ankle in).
[/quote]
what is/are nike free
This is possibly the best thread ever. My contribution:
Injury: Pulled ab muscle from ME deadlifting in the early morning and not warming up.
What made it worse:
Breathing
What made it better:
Keeping my belt high (directly over the injury) for a couple of weeks.
Who has a good one for bicep tendonitis?
Best thread ever guys, keep it coming.
Current Injury: Rotator Cuff strain, left shoulder.
What Made it Worse: Everything I do
What Made if Better: Rest, external rotation, wall slides, more rest.
Last Injury: Possibly injured c1-4 vertebrae somehow, had a HUGE pain underneath my skull whenever I started to lift heavy. Pain would be consistant for hours after the workout.
What Made it Worse: Everything, I had to lie down for a few days.
What Made it Better: Rest, walking, eating, not sure if its completely healed.
Has anyone ever had this happen to them before? I think it was caused by putting the bar too high on my neck when squatting.
[quote]wfifer wrote:
INJURY: Sprained ankle.
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. [/quote]
I’ve sprained my ankles numerous times. It usually takes about 2-3 months to completely get back to normal with a bad sprain.
[quote]AndrewBolinger wrote:
Injury: Right knee pain
What helped:
-seemingly nothing
what hurt:
-sitting with my legs crossed in the ‘manly way’, aka: one ankle up on the other thigh near the knee.
[/quote]
did this cure itself? i’ve been having this problem with my right knee from time to time. Anyone know a solution?
[quote]funkhauser wrote:
Last Injury: Possibly injured c1-4 vertebrae somehow, had a HUGE pain underneath my skull whenever I started to lift heavy. Pain would be consistant for hours after the workout.
Has anyone ever had this happen to them before? I think it was caused by putting the bar too high on my neck when squatting.[/quote]
i have felt this pain numerouse times over severl years. before i started lifting it would happen pre climax when i was fuckin. it hurt so bad a couple of times i had to stop.
after i started lifting it went away for a long time. then it started to happen again when i do really heavy DL. but i have no idea what caused it.
Injury: strained trap, rhomboid major
How: pulling heavy dead lifts for sets of 15-18
what helped:
not doing dead lifts (obviously)
Chiropractor twice a week
Muscle stim
stretching
Advil/asprin/tylenol
Arnica gel
Foam roller
What hurt:
Turing my head
shrugs
sitting in class
writing
breathing
what i learned:
I needed more days off
training 12 days straight is stupid
Im not invincible
static stretching and warming up are important no matter what ppl say