A thread to discuss injuries, rehabilitation, advice and prevention.
Have any of you guys had an injury or some kind of pain that just never goes away? Every single day I wake up with tight, painful, tense traps. The pain gets better towards the day but never ever goes away. If I touch my spine it's especially painful. Not only that, I've had knee tendonitis and I've had pain under my ribs and in my hip adductors for months. I feel like all of my injuries take months and months to heal and it's cucking my gains. Maybe my hypermobility has something to do with it.
I'm at the fucking end of my rope here, these constant little injuries are seriously cucking my progress. I don't know what to do.I have good form and warm upbefore and after and I have to take time off. Can I get some advice from anyone about what the fuck to do?
You most likely have neck and back problems and no injuries. Try a massage(from a specialist!) and get your spine checked. Try training your neck and then see if it changes.
Thomas Morgan
>Maybe my hypermobility has something to do with it.
My hips, legs and ankles are very inflexible and I've had patellar tendonitis for over a decade.
I had quadriceps tendonitis recently too. Painful to do a bodyweight squat. To fix it I squatted progressively heavier over a few months. Now I'm squatting 220kgx5.
Musclebellly injuries and tendonitis have to be trained through to properly recover.
Jason Sanchez
what do you mean problems? Shall I go to a sports massager and get a rubdown? I've been to a physio and he's like "Idk bro honestly some people are more injury prone, mb try training for hypertrophy and endurance instead of heavy strength training"
how do you properly train through this shit? Idk how to fix hip adductor injuries or my cunty traps or hip
Elijah Allen
Unless you have big problems where shit is broken or completely worn to shit you fix stuff by moving correctly.
So buy starting strength and learn the movements correctly... and if youve been high bar squatting instead of a proper knees-back lowbar squat. There's a huge chance that switching to a proper lowbar squat will fix it.
Ayden Hall
user I've not even gotten to 1234 after 3 years ar 23 cuz my gains keep getting cucked cuz I'll get tendonitis or whatever and have to rest each area for like 6 months at all time and it's so tiresome, I did SS and even got to 60kg ohp then everything got cucked, idk what to fucking do. I took a month off to rest and it still didnt fully help, maybe I'll just see a physio and tell them I'm absolutely desperate
Nicholas Green
physio doesn't fucking know they are mostly all retards and don't strength train themselves -- how could they know?
Yeah and that's your mistake. Things don't heal correctly or at all if you stop using them. Tendons and muscle have to be stressed to heal.
You need to get over the idea that pain means you need to stop. Worsening pain means you need to stop. Pain that stays the same or gets better as you go should be trained through if you are moving correctly.
I used to do olympic weightlifitng and herniated a disc doing it. I couldn't bend over. So I let the intial inflammation subside, and then I started deadlifting. I can pull over 600lbs now pain free.
The way you get rid of pain is by getting stronger.
my physio does actually lift and I was considering becoming one lmao
So the basic rule of thumb indicated that my sore traps, hips and adductors need some steady strain and stretching to heal?
Tyler Bailey
ah yes the medical professionals are all breathing retards
what do you do for a living
Jason Powell
My neck always acts up after OHP, I think it's my form but when I mirror check it seems good. Any advice anons? (and sometimes my knees feel a little sensitive on heavy lifts[squat+DL] too)
Carson Cook
No not all. But being a "physio" is not a strong credential. And a "physio" that has not done heavy lifting does not have the experience to help.
I don't have a job yet, but I'm about to get my master's in comp sci, and I have a bachelor's in mechanical engineering.
Ryder Ortiz
do em neutral grip partial motion
you probably have poor thoracic mobility/flexibility
Luis Morris
Thanks user, much appreciate. I've been trying to do more stretches to fix my posture issues, gotta find the key ones to make me limber.
Tyler Morales
I’m having a good amount of pain and tightness in what I believe to be my Achilles’ tendon where it attaches to the calcaneus. I can do most things like run/bike/whatever but it’s always sore and I can feel it all the time. Anybody have any idea?
Tyler Jenkins
you sound like a pusst
Tyler Green
bunch of fucking doctors in here. Did you go on web md and look up your symptoms???? you peoe are sk fucjing dumb seriously. How do you expect to make it if you're complaining about tendonitis?????
if you're fucking chronically injured it's reasonable to be worried and scared you'll make it worse
Owen Hernandez
In the UK being a physio requires a 3 year degree and it's a harder course to get into overall than medicine at Oxford and Cambridge
Nicholas Wright
Constant back "pain" that makes me want to crack it every hour or so and also gives me a sort of anxiety if I get uncomfortable while sitting or lying down. I've had it since I was a kid, doctors told me that it would go away with time - now in my 20s and it hasn't stopped.
Bentley Thomas
I have costochondritis and medial epicondylitis, so I can't do dips or pullups anymore without pain in my chest/elbow for the next 2-3 days after I train
Camden Nguyen
When i was younger I broke my hip in a fall. It didn't heal properly and I developed a cam impingement where the malformed bone spur just ground away at the cartilage in my hip. I eventually had an op to fix it but the damage was already done. I now have secondary arthritis in that hip and am in pain pretty much all the time.
Lifting is supposed to help, but I've not really noticed much difference so I've been in pain for seven years straight now. I know I'll probably be in pain the rest of life. Makes my sick to think about so I try not to.
I just wish other people around me could understand. All my friends and colleagues are white collar types who've never done physical work in their life.
Jason Ross
>And a "physio" that has not done heavy lifting does not have the experience to help What if the physio spent years working with people who lift heavy
Grayson Lewis
It depends on their field. A lot of physios train in a combination of msk, neuro and respiratory rehab. Others branch off and focus on msk and strength and conditioning or training high level athletes
The course is hard as fuck and you need to do over a 1000 hours clinical placement before you even see a patient.
A 'physio' requires a lot more knowledge and skills than your typical personal trainer or gym grunt
Nathaniel Foster
>The way you get rid of pain is by getting stronger
Please nobody listen to this spastic
Christian Hughes
t. will never be able to pick his kids up.
If you're past 25 then sometimes you just have to accept that you can't fix everything, and that whatever you're going through is your new baseline. However, there are a few things you can do.
>50% of your routine should be stretching >Foam roll 3 times a week >Transition towards more bodyweight movements
Thomas Johnson
>tfw 6 months into rotator cuff injury
Zachary Phillips
This, physios will have a solid highschool background in sciences and often do volunteering work on the side before applying and it's a competitive and serious degree (sometimes apprenticeship, with added hurdles) and before you even consider opening up your own clinic you gotta work in hospitals alongside others as an assistant and learn on the job. A lot of physios are sports rehab physios or msk physios, but there's all kinda physios for different body parts and systems. There are physios that work with stroke patients, for example.
That's the weird thing, my physio said this to me and basically went "Yeah my chest is stiff as fuck and I have to pop it and self-massage it. Some injuries are permanent and you just gotta deal with them, we're not perfect and humans are fragile. Just warm up before hand, foam roll, do a lot of cardio, don't lift TOO heavy if you value your joints and stretch after for flexibility and more gains"
