I’m curious to see how many other T-men and women see a chiropractor or ART specialist on a frequent basis, or do special work for their backs.
Currently, I have to get an adjustment at least every 2 weeks or my lower back gets stiff and really hurts. I always feel great right after, but usually it starts to hurt after a squat or deadlift day, and my lower back is REALLY stiff for the first hour or so after waking up.
What methods do you use for spinal wellness? Any ways to adjust your own spine or ensure spinal health?
I go about once every 2-3 months at this point. This time last year i was going 1-2 times per week after some how knocking my pelvis out of place. The biggest thing for me is to DO the corrective exercises they give you. That is what keeps everything in check the adjustment puts in place the exercises help keep it there.
I see a chiro about once a month. 5 years ago I was going 3 times a week. 2 years ago I was going once every 3-4 months. I started doing heavy squats and deadlifts again so now I go more frequently due to that. I swear by my chiro. Do the exercises and I usually try to ice or heat after a heavy leg day depending on how I feel. x2 on the hip flexors. What did you do to your back?
I went to the Mayo clinic this year to get my lower back checked out by a surgeon. He told me, in a nutshell, there isn’t anything they can do to fix the problem, just deal with it as long as I can. I had to drop heavy leg stuff to stay sane…ish :). All you can say about lower back issues is stay flexible, and hope you don’t f’it up cause it takes forever to get right again, even after visitng a chiropractor.
[quote]ucallthatbass wrote:
twice a week right now, dropping to once a weeks starting next.[/quote]
You accidentally your verb. What are you doing? Getting chiro work? [/quote]
I edited my post, but then it reverted back to this fat fingered typing mess. I’m going twice a week at the moment, to correct the “worst anterior pelvic tilt” they have ever seen. I’ve had a few adjustments made each session, but they mostly do a lot of ART and corrective exercises.
I’ll be dropping to once a week visits beginning next week.
[quote]fighting_fires wrote:
I see a chiro about once a month. 5 years ago I was going 3 times a week. 2 years ago I was going once every 3-4 months. I started doing heavy squats and deadlifts again so now I go more frequently due to that. I swear by my chiro. Do the exercises and I usually try to ice or heat after a heavy leg day depending on how I feel. x2 on the hip flexors. What did you do to your back? [/quote]
Back in August, I crushed my L5/S1 disc and sprained my serratus posterior inferior by hyperextending my spine. I was trying to catch a split snatch, and having skipped my shoulder warmup for the day, I was too inflexible to receive the bar properly, which forced my spine to hyper extend. I went back to squatting and deadlifting the bar after that for a while.
I saw a chiro 2x a week for about 2 months, and have been seeing him about once a month now. I can lift heavy without any pain, but trunk flexion still hurts.
I go see a Chiropractor once every 3 months. I went more frequently when I first started because I was having problems but now I just got for maintenance.
I watch my posture a lot more now; especially since I’m sitting all day at work. I also stretch a lot after workouts, however I don’t do rotational back stretches anymore. Rotational stretches might feel good at the time but they always cause problems for me later.
I’ve also found seated good mornings help a lot. I don’t know why but whenever I take them out of my routine my back bothers me more. I add them back in and my back doesn’t give me any problems.
[quote]BiscuitChief wrote:
I go see a Chiropractor once every 3 months. I went more frequently when I first started because I was having problems but now I just got for maintenance.
I watch my posture a lot more now; especially since I’m sitting all day at work. I also stretch a lot after workouts, however I don’t do rotational back stretches anymore. Rotational stretches might feel good at the time but they always cause problems for me later.
I’ve also found seated good mornings help a lot. I don’t know why but whenever I take them out of my routine my back bothers me more. I add them back in and my back doesn’t give me any problems.[/quote]
interesting tip on the seated good mornings, ill have to give that a try. Thanks.
I go to a chiropractor every 2-3 weeks. I stretch my hammies, hip flexors and ITB at least once a day. Before I started the stretching, I used to have a lot of lower back tightness and spasms. Once I read Neanderthal No MOre, I discovered the effect of tight hammies and hip flexors on the lower back and neck.
I just started ART (literally last night - was my first time). It hurt like a bitch but I felt looser afterwards. I’ll keep on doing it as long as I can afford to. I have 20+ years of hunching over a computer (desk job + PC games junkie) combined with 20+ years of weights and running so I’m pretty messed up.
I foam roll as well.
I see a chiro about once a month, sometimes less. My right legs typically ends up a 1/2 inch shorter than my left. Too much direct spinal work affects my back, specifically good mornings. My spinal erector muscles are noticably larger on the right than the left.
Closest thing I have to ART in my area is to have my wife use her elbows to “break up” the cords in my erectors. It hurts so good!
Holding a PVC pipe in the overhead squat position has really loosened up my hips and has improved my technique for the squat and deadlift.
And don’t forget to stretch the Quadratus Lumborum and Psoas…see Youtube videos for that.
makes you wonder… could be fun to see a statistic over people who weight lift and who dont and see if more or less go to chiros.
ive been 3 times in the years ive been living when i was i child and then 2 times here in the past 2 weeks to get my pelvic tilt sorted out. it was tilted so that i had different leg lenghts.
but she said that it was because of the way i sleep and sit not because of the training. she said that the training properly had delayed the process and thats why it was so easy to correct and had not given me any pain problems…