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If you missed it, in Part 1 we talked all about why your lower back might hurt from doing overhead press.
So how do we fix it?
1) Check to see if you’ve got adequate thoracic spine and shoulder mobility – Read this previous article I wrote and use the standing overhead wall test
Then… fix said crappy mobility. Continue reading
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If you guys have been following this site for any length of time you know that I’m a huge fan of cleaning up your technique on all of your lifts. It will do just about everything from making you a more efficient athlete and reducing your risk of injury to filling in your bald spot on the top of your head.
I think that most coaches and athletes understand the idea of keeping your spine in a neutral position and moving from your hips during exercises like squats, deadlifts and olympic lifts. I know I run around like a madman at class screaming back flat! Continue reading
Posted in Injury Prevention, Lower Back, Overhead Press, Technique, Uncategorized
Tagged lower back pain, push press, spondylolisthesis
To start, I wanted to say that I plugged the words “butt tuck” into google to get some good images to put along with this post and what I ended up getting was not anything related to squatting. Man am I naive.
Anyway, we’ve all heard it, squatting is going to hurt your back. We get screamed at every day to keep our backs flat at the gym and we understand it well, right?
Well ya, we want the lower back (lumbar spine) in a neutral position during squatting. It’s important for avoiding flexion based back pain and disc herniations. Our motion should be coming from the hips. Here’s a quick refresher. Continue reading
We’ve all seen it. It starts as a friendly attempt at picking up a heavy weight. It ends in terror, back pain and vertebral discs being shot all over the room. You know what I’m talking about. I’m sure you’ve seen some people dead lifting like a scared cat and perhaps you’ve been guilty of this as I have.
In more technical terms I mean losing a neutral spine position while picking up heavy weights. Although mostly comical, this video provides a good visual description of what I’m talking about. Continue reading
The word “core” is thrown around quite a bit in the fitness and physical therapy world. Rob and I go over the core in depth and how it relates to low back pain. Join us as we battle over who has the best six pack. Topics include:
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The human body is complex. Assessment, corrective exercise and injury prevention is also tricky. If we’re new to the game, how can we begin to figure out our deficits and address them? If we’re seasoned, is there some type of system we can use to analyze our athletes and clients? Continue reading
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Tagged joint by joint approach
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By: Rob Rowland
We have all the heard the statistics on back pain and chances are you have dealt with it yourself. The problem is that with the prevalence of back pain, most people are still clueless on how they should deal with it. I encounter patients regularly who demand that they need a MRI so they can figure out exactly what is going on in their back. They want to know where their “bulging disc” is, like that will somehow change their course of treatment. It has been shown that abnormal MRI’s as just as common in those without back pain as they are in those with back pain. This means that there are plenty of people walking around with “bulging discs” and have absolutely no pain or symptoms. Continue reading
Posted in Lower Back, Uncategorized
LOW BACK Disorders – Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation Book Review
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Stuart McGill has built quite a name for himself over the years. It seems that in the past few years he’s really built a large following in the personal training, sports performance and fitness fields. LOW BACK Disorders is no joke. Continue reading
Upon waking first thing in the morning your intervertebral discs are hyperhydrated or filled with a lot of fluid.This normally decreases throughout the day as you bear weight through your spine with normal activity. Continue reading
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