Is Back Pain Caused By Lack of Strength? 

I'm so in complete awe of Baraki's neck, I can't concentrate on what he's saying.

As a physical therapist that works with a big chronic pain population, it’s so pleasing to see Austin summarize the biopsychosocial approach. Excellent stuff delivered exceptionally well. Thanks, guys!

I stopped lifting shortly after my son was born for about 6 months. In that time, my only activity was the unique form of fatherhood that comes with a baby born at 31 weeks with little time for anything else. About 3 months in, I got a bout of back pain worse than anything I'd felt in my life. At 30 years old, it was tough to get out of bed or walk around the zoo. Flash forward, my son is 7 months old, extremely healthy, and my family is at a point where I can leave the house train again. The first 3 weeks were... absolutely awful. I was weak, sore, and everything hurt. However, with every session, things hurt slightly less. Now, 5 weeks in, I'm virtually pain free. Thanks Juggernaut AI! I have no idea what actually caused the pain. I'm 6'7" and 245lbs, so weight could easily have been a factor. I also felt like my body was disintegrating, and wonder if that mindset played into it? The point is, I have no idea what was wrong and the amount of time and money it would have taken to "figure it out" would not have been worth it. It's not shocking to me that there's not a ton of concrete causes and fixes for this.

I developed back pain after working as a residential mover over 4 years. It continued after I left the trade and received physical therapy for it with minimal results. I decided to try powerlifting cautiously with strict form, lots of squats and deadlifts. After about 4 months, the chronic pain that plagued me the previous 8 years was gone.

My low back pain is gone since beginning barbell lifting. Used nautilus style machines before, but the barbell movements seem to be better for me. Anecdotal of course…

I stopped lifting about 25 years ago to try and recover better between jiu jitsu classes. I should have dropped jiu jistsu instead. Finally got back to lifting 2 years ago with lots of deadlifts and squats. My back and neck pain has decreased, despite being told by physios that my body wouldn't be up to heavy lifting anymore.

I think it's more likely activity (or exercise) than strength. I don't think a 500 pound deadlifter is more resilient to pain than a 300 pound deadlifter during everyday tasks. A certain amount of basic functional strength can probably help reduce pain, but the "motion is lotion" concept seems to be the answer here. I would expect the person who focuses on full body muscular endurance to have less pain than the person focusing on strength. I used to chase strength, but then i realized i felt great just lifting regularly without pushing for gains. Adding 100 pounds to my deadlift isn't going to make me feel less pain, it's just going to make me stronger.

A supervisor at work told me to llift with a an upright back , he couldn't lift 20 kg without pain and a grimace on his face . I told him he was full of shit and showed him a video of me doing 120kg bent over barbell rows . Doesn't like me any more .

Where is the link to the September 2022 Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard From Australia?

Link for the Australian study?

Not seeing that link guys. 😉

Had back pain earlier in my life when I didn't workout. I Have been squatting and deadlifting for 10 years now without pain. I squatted around 500 and dead around 600. I simply stopped doing squats and deadlift around 6 months ago because I just didn't feel like doing it anymore. Well, guess what? The back pain started coming back but I can still deadlift 500+ so it isn't because my strength is way down.

The only back injury I have gotten is from crappy deadlift form almost a decade ago and a lack of general bracing. Since then not even a twinge but as these gentlemen point out, I am just a single data point.

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But Rip said the best cure for back pain is deadlifting

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Correct movements never hurts anybody depending on the load because like resistance training overload the body structure is design to carry load correctly

Prevention, yes. Then for recovery