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I recently went on vacation to Delaware with family.  With nothing but the beach in “Dela-where?”, I got to relax and read.  Whenever I read, I sit.  Therefore, I was doing alot of sitting.

Towards the end of the week, I started noticing “tension” in my lower back. 

For all of you anatomy-heads, I’ve concluded that I often get pain in the quadratus lumborum bilaterally.  (This muscle is a secondary lumbar spine stabilizer.  Secondary because it tends to overwork and become painful when the primary muscles, such as psoas, multifidi, semispinalis, rotatores, don’t work optimally, often from too much sitting!).

Having not done much exercise to load my back, I didn’t think much of the “tension”.  I went to the gym to workout.  We were practicing Fight Gone Bad, in honor of  Murph.  You can help me raise money for the Fight Gone Bad event on Sept. 25 here (every dollar counts!).

In the first round, I was just starting some Sumo Deadlift High Pulls when I felt it … significant pain in my back provoked by any bending at all.  Juiced up and adrenaline rushing, I shovelled together the shambles of my body to finish the workout.

I herniated a disc.

Later that day, I went to a BBQ.  Demolished some hamburgers, hot dogs, and more than a couple of cookies. 

After sitting a while, I went to stand and started walking.  It was then that I realized that I couldn’t stand up straight and walked like a duck, forward lean and ass out.  I’ve had back pain before, but never this bad!

The morning after the incident was the worst.  [click to continue…]

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