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smash
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- Apr 30, 2013
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What's going on with my back is it has nearly seven decades of wear & tear on it, and I still pull relatively heavy and do other dumb shit like twenty-rep squat routines when I want to coax what little muscle mass I can at my age. Sometimes, I can stretch out the kinks (besides the standard piriformis/psoas/hammie/glute stretches and tpt, goblet squats with long pauses help a LOT); sometimes, I need a chiropractic adjustment.
I wish I had some magic words, well maybe I do, I would suggest not resigning yourself to the status quo. People have rarely exhausted their options, that's not to say you should try any quackery, just from a psychological point it has been shown that your mind is critical to pain but not in the way we think.
Regardless of age, pain is clearly produced from tissue irritation, particularly mechanical overload. If the overload is sufficient to damage tissue and produce biomechanical change in the joint, then the loading patterns of other tissues are disturbed. So back injury can begin with damage to one tissue leading to a progressive deterioration over time. There has been some relevant research but I found this very telling from Stuart McGill "Training spine motion under load requires caution. No specific guidelines exist for determining training loads - nor can such guidelines exist for each individual. The point is these notions are acknowledged and considered on an individual basis."