please help my back....

after an hour of throwing open stone in practice, I was tieing my hammer boots up and my low back suddenly seized up and was super tight. It didn't hurt to throw the hammer but now when I am sitting or standing up from sitting - my back feels in horrible pain. Then subsides completely when walking or standing.

It didn't hurt to throw the 28 two days later - but still persists with the same pain 5 days later...

any suggestions for my whining?

will barron wrote: after an hour of throwing open stone in practice, I was tieing my hammer boots up and my low back suddenly seized up and was super tight. It didn't hurt to throw the hammer but now when I am sitting or standing up from sitting - my back feels in horrible pain. Then subsides completely when walking or standing. It didn't hurt to throw the 28 two days later - but still persists with the same pain 5 days later... any suggestions for my whining?

 

I pointed out your problem.  you're welcome.

Wee Willie - you need to take a nice hot bath , then go lay on the bed and stretch that thing out - 2-3 times a day - focus on hamstrings - (everytime you have low back pain - it's the hammies) and throwing your leg over to stretch lower back . You probabaly can reach back to your lower back area while doing the leg thrown over stretch and feel a hard,hot knot that needs to be rubbed until it breaks up. After stretching, lay there on floor w. feet up on a chair - taking all stress off lower back for 15-20 minutes ...then very slowly ease your way back up . Repeat as necesarry - you gotta get the spasm to realax and your lower back bones in line.

Heavy deadlifts and good mornings...do them as heavy as possible every day for the next two weeks...dont stop when you feel pain,,,if you do you are a pussy...keep pushing you want to throw far right? got to lift heavy.

I also have Mcnaughton dropping banana peels all the way down your driveway as we speak.

hey Mark was going thru the channels before and they had an infomercial on MSNBC for a machine called corevolution(wgich is basically a poor mans reverse hyper...even had Louie talking about the design,how it would benefit a sore back by strengthening and building an awesome set of hammies and glutes

Do you guys need my phone number?  That number 11 spot is feeling good and ready to go!  I agree with Craig.  What the hell are you doing practicing so damn much this close to the big show?  Rest, eat (this is the most important part), heat, stretch, then, ice, ice, ice.  Valenti, you got my number don't you?

3 years ago I pulled my back in a similar way. I was learning the clean and jerk and I was about to warm up with a very light weight, grab the bar, start the pull and...voila! I couldn't stand straight. Frozen. It was bad. I couldn't lift for months. I saw a surgeon, a chiropractor. Nothing, it wouldn't go away. then I saw a physical therapist. He stretch me like you couldn't believe it. It was painful but efficient. He taught me some exercises to stretch the lower back, glutes, hips and Hamstrings. It went away.

I keep my back strong but usually after heavy deadlifting, doing high reps kettlebell swings or lifting rocks my back gets pretty beat up. I strectch those muscles and I'm like new.

good luck,

In all of this talk about stretching, nobody has
mentioned hip flexors. I had on-and-off back pain for a
few years, which at times was so bad I couldn't walk
straight. When it was loose enough to throw, stone
throwing tightened the hell out of it. I finally found a
chiropractor/ART practitioner who diagnosed the problem
- super tight hip flexors. Between the work she did on
me, and daily stretching of the hip flexors, it's no
longer a problem.

I don't want to contradict someone with the athletic
background of Mike Baab, but usually tight hamstrings
are not the problem, they're a symptom. Tight hip
flexors pull at the pelvis, tilting it down in front,
which of course means up in back, which pulls at the
hamstrings and tightens them, and causes back pain. So
if you have back pain that's not from a damaged disk,
check your hamstrings, and if they're tight, stretch
your hip flexors.

Will my back has felt great for the past three years.

I credit rollerblading.

 

Seriously though I hope it clears up!

david barron wrote:

Ditto = I had the same exact problem. had and atlas stone worked out then later on that night bent down to pick some thing up and ended up flat on my back!!

heat Advil  and when you can try to lossen up the hams and back muscles to avoid re injury

Better than muscle than the spine!!

My suggestion?? Stop Whining! Suck it up and get back to work! Pain lets you know you're alive...if you don't feel pain...you're dead already!

and thanks everyone...even Eric

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