Only experience (it happened to you) or doctor/rehab (you certified) responces allowed.
They say in order to overcome something, you have to overcome it with something more painfull than it itself. I think working abs fit that profile. :mad:
For that I am now doing light-heavy painfull ab crunches for lower and upper abs.
Does this sound right.
By the way, I messed up my loeer back doing squats, heavy squats allowing the weight to tell me what to do. Which was excessive forward lean. :mad:
Thats similar to what i am doing. I was polevaulting and let go of the pole to early and fell and hurt my lower back. It hurt that night and it hurts a little when i wake up, but it goes away when i sprint. I started to do a lot of ab work when i hurt it.
I would think that what you are doing is not the best approach. I really messed up my back in 2002 and it took 2 + years to get it better. Now there were many other issues involved here, but the jist of it was that I had to learn how to take care of myself. I’ve met with over 10 chiro’s, many from different points of view. I’ve had deep tissue massage, ART, Rolfing, Ortho-Bionomy, more X-Rays than what’s good for me, etc.
My advice is that I’d work on getting the midsection to stabilize you and work on getting a really good range of motion from your hips (along with strength). You can choose a Chek approach or a McGill approach, which ever you like. They take two different approaches, but the result is still to get your midsection to stabilize you.
If you can get a stable midsection, and strong mobile hips, your back will greatly improve. Everytime I work with anyone who’s back is hurting, the first thing I do is see how tight there hips are, and I’ve never found anyone who doesn’t have tight hips in this case, never. (That’s just an observation)
Anyway, I wouldn’t be doing flexion against a back that is hurt. Unless you know the exact nature of your injury, by crunching forward over and over again you could causing the nucleus to shift backwards when that may already be a problem. You may need it to shift forward (more than likely). But we don’t know this, you would need to be examined to really know. Isometrics are probably the best bet when training can resume. This won’t cause any undo pressure AND it trains the midsection area to do what it’s meant to do; create stability and prevent unnecessary movement throughout the center.
