Yuuuup blew out my lower back about a year ago doing a warm-up with 225 snatch grip deadlifts. It was excruciating pain. I could hardly breath, and hardly made it to my car. Called my doc immediately, got a shot of toradol from the doc, some etodolac pills, and went home. Had a CT scan the next day, and my spine was fine. I had severely pulled my spinal erectors.
Was doing deads twice a week following some damn program. Have re-strained it several times since then... Once while bending over to put on fucking socks. Physical therapy didn't help.
Only thing that's helped my lower back, is strengthening it back up slowly. I lost a lot of muscle in my spinal erectors from the injury, so by training them with LIGHT weight/high rep, it's been getting better. I'm still cautious about it every single time I do something, every single day. Every time I bend over, every time I train, it's in the back of my head.
I just want to be able to deadlift again