I’m gonna have a good day today.
The fuck you are. So this patient of mine had a similar feeling.
That was especially bad on the descent of even lightweight deadlifts,
pain radiating across what he said was his SI joint.
On explosive movements like this,
the ascent was fine, but on the way down,
his pain was sparked even more.
During testing, he had no pain of pulling up on a stool
to load his spine in a neutral posture.
But the second he rounded his back and pulled up,
his pain came out. In trying,
even a lightweight Jefferson curl would recreate his back pain.
So testing suggested he was actually dealing with a dynamic disbalance,
where the combination of spine flexion and load was progressing
a disc herniation sparking pain.
So a part of his fix started with instilling more core stability.
With the McGill Big three routine.
With the side planks, I gave him the cue to hinge back down.
We then reworked spine mechanics
to minimize spine rounding when lifting weights.
And if you really focused on bracing his core
and moving about his hips,
he no longer had pain. With this weight,
showing, he now had a plan in place for a full recovery.