Kid1 as you have been on both side of the fence so to speak do you still squat and deadlift etc??
as stated in my earlier post i love heavy training and still want to build mass but can no longer afford to keep going back 2 steps at nearly 36 years old.
i know a lot of people slate leg press saying this can be more detrimental to backs however i find that by not going stupid heavy and taking knees almost to chest i avoid that lower back lift up.
back training i will keep to chins, chest supported rows, db rows and pullovers
I am on the fence LOL.I am a chiro but also have faith and believe in Western style medicine as It has saved my life.I Got a bachelors in pre-med and also got a nutrition degree.I was accepted to med school but chose chiropractic a few months before med school began.My whole family are Doctors and nurses and some pharmaceutical reps.There was a whole lot of unneccasary med bashing in chiro school and I was bothered by it.
I wouldn't let my friends or family just pick a chiro out of the phone book and go to him/her.I would want to see what techniques they use and there general philosophy.
But with training,first you need to figure out exactly what the heck is going on with that back.After that modify training based on your injury.
I do mainly front sqauts now,but still struggle to hold the bar correctly
For two reasons 1)its easier on my back 2) A recent review of exercise efficincy was published using an MRI (read by a radiologist)to determine which produced the most micro trauma to the target muscles and front sqaut was determined most effective for qauds.
as you said above about 2 steps back.Listen to your body and do the exercises you can tolerate and recover from to be able to continue training.
Kid1dakota-
Well, this was not intended to attack Chiros like you may have taken my response. It was my opinion on getting an actual diagnosis before further treatment. I am in no way advising anyone to just go have surgery. Back surgeries will almost always need further back surgeries so it is not a fix I would recommend unless absolutely necessary. As I said I exhausted all possible methods before I had my first surgery, and held out for 12 years before it became an absolute necessity.
I won't argue with your opinion. You maybe a very good Chiro and kudos to you if you are. Comedy asked for advice from people on the board that suffered from back pain. I think I fit that category since I have first hand knowlege of a lifting injury that has caused serious consequences to my body over time and will continue the rest of my life. So I offered my 2 cents.
I wish you both well.
Listen,Chiropractic has shot themselves in the foot.The education is good and the ones that practcice science based vs. philosophy based are effective and help many people.But too many are preaching weird hocus pocus and getting involved in areas of care they aren't adequatley trained and all the insurance frauds etc have hurt the professions reputation
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Like I said above I wouldn't let my friends or family just walk into any chiro's office.But there are good ones that know the scope of their training and are really good at what they do.The education is more than most realise and first its a bachelors(4 years) than 4 more years of chiro school.The first two years are all the same basic sciences as med school.Florida State was going to have a chiro school where the med students and chiros spent the first two years together and then branched off.
My statements above were more trying to explain that it doesn't matter who orders the MRI it will be read by a radiologist.A couple people kept saying go to this or that kind of doc... well the test is really what matters to figure out the status of health.Once you get the MRI you can bring the results around and find out treatment options.
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