I'm barely 25 years old and my lower back has been getting worse and worse for the past 2 years. It started with lost flexibility. I no longer can bend over and touch my toes with straight knees. Not even close.
Now, I'm starting to have a chronic pain that worsens after squats. I've lightened my loads big time too.
Stretching seems to make things worse.
I'm going to see a chiropractor this week and hope for the best. I'm only scared cause everyone I've talked to said it only gets worse. Online, people seem more optimistic (ironic)
Why? Cause I feel all knotted and jammed up. I need to get wiggled out like a slinky. Foam rolling REALLY FUCKED MY SHIT UP for about 2 weeks of non-doms straight up nerve damage for rolling too low.
Yoga stretches... I've sorta done, and it doesn't help. Weight lifting has only made things worse.
Angel Miller
Im 20 and in the same boat m8. Stopped squats and dls and started to do leg press and back raises with 20 kg instead. Has helped a lot, but dont think it will go away. I injured my back snowboarding and have 4 "mini prolapses" as my doctor calls it on the front side of my lower back. The only thing you can do is hope you don't have that. I have been doing yoga with a chick I met at the gym im working in and that has helped a lot with the mobility issues and I can bend further without pain. Hope you get better.
Gabriel Clark
Chiropractors aren't real doctors, go to a gp or a physio therapist
Elijah Butler
Thanks for the info. Seeing my dad at 60, and he's starting to get a bad back. I can't imagine how mine will feel at double my age... Definitely going to doctors.
chiro will only manage the symptoms, not fix the problem
go on high doses of those supps for several months and it should get better
Noah Bailey
Stretch your hamstrings they are directly related to back pain. Also do yoga and go easy on lifting until your shit is fixed
Landon Smith
Yeah, if you make an effort and start doing mobility work, proper periodization, controllable weights and shit instead of just memelifting like an idiot
Benjamin Moore
yoga
Luis Collins
Chiropractic is literally linked to increased incidence of stroke. Go to a physiotherapist, you drooling simpleton.
Liam Lopez
VISIT A FUCKING DOCTOR A chiropractor is NOT a doctor. Most of them are quacks that are at ZERO liability if they fuck up your spine.
Jayden Wood
but yoga can make things even worse if not done properly. go to a /real/ yoga shala, and not yogaworks or yoga with your basic girl friend.
James Williams
Strengthen your core and it all goes away. Had back pain before I joined the army because all I did was pushup/situp/run maxed so I wouldn't have issues in basic, during basic and AIT and unit PT we did more core exercises and after almost a year my back pain was gone. As soon as I got out of the army I stopped exercising, and it came back. Been doing some core exercising since last year and it has definitely lightened up.
Adam Brown
do not stretch go to a doctor not a chiro fixyourownback.com the mckenzie method I was once where you are now
Camden Foster
See a doctor and an actual sports massage therapist.
Grayson Edwards
>liquid calcium Why does it have to be liquid?
Also, where did you learn of all this, user?
Henry Torres
Im sure it can still be fixed in such a young age. Try stretching more and eat well. Training the lower back muscles should also help. Don't train them too hard for now though, you might regret it the next day.
Jackson Turner
I have a small niggle in my lower left back. Started doing a lat stretch and it's coming right. I pretty much grab something at around hip hight, bend so my back is horizontal and straight then pull the buttock that's the same side away from my hands. Thats about as well as I can describe it
Landon Gomez
Yoga nigga
James Edwards
stfu. The pain comes from lack of movement. nobody listen to this poster he probably doesn't even lift.
Levi Torres
I'm dealing with the same thing OP.
I'm 22 and I've had low back pain for the past couple of years. Anything above 3 months is automatically described as chronic iirc. I honestly thought I was gonna have this pain for the rest of my life until recently.
I was against going to a doc for the longest time cuz it was gonna cost me money that I didn't have but recently the pain was getting a lot worse and I didn't want to deal with it anymore. I ended up going to a PT and somehow she managed to make the pain pretty much go away. All I had to do is visit her 4-5 times, do some exercises, and use a trigger ball.
So OP you shouldn't give up and definitely don't let the pain control your life. Go see a PT and see what they have to say. You may find that your problem is easily solvable. Just make sure to stick the to the program that they give you.
Juan Collins
Do some ab work. Strong abs take the load offf the lower back.
Ian Powell
If it's an actual back injury you need to go see a trained physio who can actually help you with it safely.
Otherwise its just the result of a muscular imbalance and you need to strengthen certain things and fix your posture.
Strengthen your glutes, hamstrings and abdominals (stomach vacuums are good too) and stretch out your quads and hip flexors.
Make sure that your form is 100% spot on. Chances are you're not bracing properly, you're lifting with your back rather than engaging the posterior chain properly and all this is placing too much strain on your back as well as over-developing certain muscles because you're lifting weight in a compromised position.
I used to have what I thought was chronic back pain but it was literally just anterior pelvic tilt.
Julian Diaz
You're a Retard if you think a chiropractor is gonna solve your problem
