backpain: unflexible after workout? why

[S431M7]

excessive squats and deadlift had cause me some on-and-off backpain over the last 5 months. I had been doing both exercise in the right form and in the right technique, and always with a backbelt on. Yet I still get back pain. Now it is like I have to keep and maintain my back straight or else if I try to bend it slight even when I'm not lifting weight, the pain comes back. At home I have difficulty to pick anything from the floor because I can't bend my back. It seems like I have molded my back to be upright straight. Can someone tell me why my back can't be flexible after workout?

[Doc.Sust]

dont bend withyour back, bend with your legs fist off...2nd this happens to everyone,if you are in severe pain , this isnt normal , but if you are just tight and lose flexiblitly the same day or next day after a squat/dead workout, it happens!! happens to me all the tiem, especially worse in the morning(called morning stiffness, it is a sign of DJD or OA which are fancy names for arthritis) do you stretch pre and post work out? something tells me you probably dont, idont either, so but that is why my flexibility sucks. ifyou wan to fix this, look up some decent stretches, and perform them twice a day every day, and i guarantee you wil be more flexible

[Doc.Sust]

also don t be affraid to ice post workout for 20 minutes to help allevaite any swelling after the core lifts, read my post on cryotherapy , and also read the lumbar rehab post, it cant hurt.

[S431M7]

thanks alot Sust.
I do stretch periodically be4 workout but not afterworkout, probably that's why then, huh? I will try to get into daily pre/and post workout stretch to see if it may help. I'm sure it ain't something internally worst than you expect nor any swelling around my back. Just some unbearable sfiff-ness if u will after squat/dead workout. As for the ice, I will look foreward to that kind of therapy. Thanks man, I will look for the post u recommended too, and hopefully to be back some more questions and comment. peace out.

[m.e.k.h.500]

i have the same symptoms streching helps me a lot, too. i also walk the stiffness away. when i get up in the morning and my back feels stiff and even when it hurts. i go for a walk (2 miles) after that i strech. Helpes wonders for me.

[chest6]

Same thing is wrong with me. Its stiff when I wake up in the morning and the pain gradually decreases throughout the day...

[Doc.Sust]

Same thing is wrong with me. Its stiff when I wake up in the morning and the pain gradually decreases throughout the day...

djd/oa. i have it myself, just a fancy way of saying arthritis

[Doc.Sust]

thanks alot Sust.
I do stretch periodically be4 workout but not afterworkout, probably that's why then, huh? I will try to get into daily pre/and post workout stretch to see if it may help. I'm sure it ain't something internally worst than you expect nor any swelling around my back. Just some unbearable sfiff-ness if u will after squat/dead workout. As for the ice, I will look foreward to that kind of therapy. Thanks man, I will look for the post u recommended too, and hopefully to be back some more questions and comment. peace out.

hope it helps, let me know!

[JJP480]

Also try stretching you hip flexors very well in your sretching regime.
I had a wicked tight painful back a while back and it was my hip flexors.
After a few deep tissue massages and full stretching of the flexors everyday the pain dissapeared almost instantly, and it has never returned.

[IronAdam]

Also try stretching you hip flexors very well in your sretching regime.
I had a wicked tight painful back a while back and it was my hip flexors.
After a few deep tissue massages and full stretching of the flexors everyday the pain dissapeared almost instantly, and it has never returned.

Same for me. If I do my back stretch routine regularly heavy deadlifts are no problem. As soon as I slack on them I develop LBP again. A good stretching routine can help back pain a lot.

[Doc.Sust]

Also try stretching you hip flexors very well in your sretching regime.
I had a wicked tight painful back a while back and it was my hip flexors.
After a few deep tissue massages and full stretching of the flexors everyday the pain dissapeared almost instantly, and it has never returned.

very good point

[S431M7]

hope it helps, let me know!

Thanks Doc.
I find oout stretching is the only cure to my problem. Nowdays I stretch as often I can. Thanks for bringing to mind attention

[Doc.Sust]

hope it helps