5 Things to Do After You Tweak Your Back - Rehabbing Lower Back Injuries 

Absolutely. Moving as early as possible is key

Agreed. If you hurt something and decide to avoid lifting and using this area it degenerates and seems prone to injury for me personally. Even during that same session, have the confidence to maybe re test at a lower weight (unless you are clearly badly hurt) and come back a few days later and do what Frodo says above. It's crucial to get this confidence back. Great tip Frodo the hobo !

Go through and watch the bracing videos as well. More proactive you are, the less miserable the experience

I read that 3 packs or more of ibuprofen even cure ruptured tendons and bulging disks

I have not, though I have had a few injuries that probably meritted one. I'm not qualified to give an opinion on it. I can say that, after a dozen or so injuries over the last 15 years, I had periods of time where I thought I had to hang it up. Where I stand now, pain free and pulling more than I ever have before, I'm grateful that I could use the pain as a measuring stick of progress. If I masked it to get through another workout, I'm pretty sure I would be falling apart right now.

lol, no, there's a skate shop next door to us with a half pipe. I almost refilmed this because of the obnoxious background noise, but didn't have time. Sorry for the audio.

@@AlexanderBromley haha ok. It's not that bad, I was just curious.

any tweaking isn’t normal

Lots of chinups

@@senakristhfon3711 terrible advice

True, but considering how difficult as it is to pinpoint that, it's much better to approach an incident as if there is damage.

@@AlexanderBromley I would rather not assume the worst unless that pain wasn't getting better. If it's only an acute twinge of pain, wouldn't it be better to keep moving? You might need to adjust the weight on the bar or the range of motion. But things generally get better on their own, and assuming the worst doesnt encourage people to make the efforts necessary to assist getting better faster.

The best thing is always to keep moving (the worst thing you can do is nothing), but how you move is most important. You get no benefit from assuming it's 'not that bad'. But there is a big risk with it. There's no scenario where stretching your low back when it is in pain is a good idea.

@@AlexanderBromley but again, that's assuming there's significant damage. Saying "there's no situation where stretching is a good idea" is absolute. It doesnt take into account any kind of nuance. That is a dangerous way to approach this. There may or may not be some kind of injury, mb and that's not how pain actually works. The sensation felt may more may not correlate with some kind of damage, but saying that a small back twinge is equivalent to literally ripping your muscles apart is incredibly demoralizing and makes things worse for people who just assume you're right. In the absolute worst case it might beappropriate, but I would say a high percentage of tweaks mean nothing in the long scheme.

@pan peter I didnt say that and I think you know that. Pain is real, but pain and damage dont correlate 100%. You may even have damage but not experience pain (being in shock, or even distracted...) being in pain is a natural experience of being human, but you can adapt your motions and not freak out about a twinge of pain that randomly happens.

Nah it’s possible to fix it, Louie Simmons did that.

@@edanisgreat5118 everyone is different. I can tell you that the reverse hyper kills my L5/S1 disc herniation.