Follow med advice post strain/pull rest ice pain relief NSAIDs and do no HARM for at least 72 hrs post injury H heat A alcohol R running M massage then slowly had heat to the injury keep NSAIDs and pain relief and stacks of drinking water....Dr won't refer until up to 6 weeks to say physio in UK .
Low back pain such as the op described is different from a strain; if it was a muscle strain then there would be an 'oh no' moment and it would not be a case of going home and then feeling pain gradually coming on later. Muscle strain is immediate. RICER and HARM as mentioned is for muscle strain and ice is not recommended for the low back. Ice is useful for swelling; it only reaches and cools tissue which is fairly close to the surface, even though it may feel like it is going deeper, it is not physically possible to do so. Low back pain usually does not have inflammation.
For visits to the doctor, low back pain is second only to upper respiratory related problems and yet there is usually no tissue damage. It is not necessary to see a doctor unless the pain is strong and not improving over a period of about 6 weeks. Incidentally, even in chronic low back pain core strengthening exercises do not work http://ptjournal.apta.org/content/90/10/1426.long
The spinal chord sends impulses to the brain stem and cerebral cortex which is perceived as pain. The intention is to alert you to damage, however unless it is a strain or some kind of injury there isn't real damage, it is just ordinary muscle pain. The lacrosse ball indicates exactly that. Us guys going to the gym, pushing ourselves often to the edge risk overloading the muscle tissue. Massage and trigger point work are the best treatments.
The medical community (western) doesn't know shit about low back pain. A physicIan only knows the dribble you posted. That will do nothing. We lift. Sitting out isn't an acceptable option.
Yes it's not at all a strain since he wasn't in pain until he got home.
LBP is a very common issue in PL. We have an imbalance between posterior chain and anterior. The tight anterior compartments or overpowering posterior compartments pull you into a lordotic posture as compensation . Too much time like this causes LBP.
Successfull treatment involves smashing and loosening the posterior hips, restoring full ROM to psoas, smashing rectus femorus.
Then for maintainence do some of the prehab work like sfg and others suggested. Goblet squats are great. Accumulating 10 minutes per day in a full squat is awesome as well.
I thought I already wrote an article on this. Maybe I will try and get to that this weekend if I have not.
Hate it when that happens! Thanks for the effort though.Haha damn it I wrote quite a technical and long answer with references for you and then it signed me out and did not let me save my work. I will write something again later. The short answer is that it should be stretched, massaged and trigger pointed but it isn't a great contributor to back pain, more so sciatica. Its function is mainly rotation. If you want to talk strictly posterior hip then trigger points in the powerful extensor glute max, for powerlifters in particular, can cause low back pain.
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.No problem, can you tell me what is going on with your back? What happened initially? how long ago, what have you tried etc