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Last Updated: December 18th, 2024 at 11:53 pm
A few months ago I started working with a lady who was having recurring back pain
A couple times a year, she would do something that would aggravate her back and then be out of commission for days
Often times taking time off work because of the pain
Once we started working together, I knew she needed to build spinal resilience
Which means we gotta start doing 1 major thing: heavy deadlifts
But at the beginning, she was in too much pain to deadlift
Therefore, I started working on various areas of her body which support a pain free deadlift
Hip mobility
Spinal mobility
Proper technique
The works
Getting her to the point where she could perform a deadlift without any pain
Checkpoint reached
But deadlifting without pain isn’t enough
We need to go heavy
Really heavy
We worked on getting her deadlift as heavy as possible
Challenging her spinal musculature to adapt to a very large load and stimulus
This builds spinal resilience
Fast forward a few weeks and she had been deadlifting heavy at least 1x/wk
The last session she came to me and told me that since the last time she saw me, she went on a long road trip and slept on unfamiliar mattresses
And towards the end of her travels, she was having some back pain
She worried it was going to blow up into a full blown flare up like it would’ve in the past
Only this time, she had been deadlifting…
She woke up the next morning and felt fine
Able to get back in the gym, do some more heavy deadlifts, and importantly, not take any time off work
Heavy deadlifts protected this patient from having another flare up and kept her life moving along
On to more heavy deadlifts and setting new personal bests in the deadlift during our session
All pain free
Thank you deadlifts
We love you If you’ve been dealing with recurrent back pain and want some professional help, let’s chat
Schedule a free 15 minute phone call with me and we can see if we’re a good fit to work together
It could be the difference between a full blown flare up or simply sleeping it off
Your best is yet to come!
-Dr. Michael