Hey,
A few weeks ago I was deadlifting sets of 8. On one of the last reps, I did something wrong. I think I might’ve not locked my shoulders or something, but there was a sudden intense pain that felt like a cramp in my mid back. I had problems sitting down, bending forward and the pain was radiating from what seemed like my lower or mid back area to my groin and even testicles. I tried to go to the gym once, but at that time it seemed to make things worse, so what I did for about two weeks was clean around the house and organize trying to actively think of similar forms that I would take in the gym and do long works in the forest. I was starting to feel much much better and thought that the pain had resided.
Yesterday I returned to the gym. I was squatting without any pain, in the bench press I felt some slight tingling, but the deadlift totally got me off guard. I went up to 80 kg without any problems and paused on every move to really pay attention to the form. On the 7th rep I felt another intense cramp, that at that moment felt like I was going to go blind. 80 kg x 8 is around 55-60 % of what I would normally do in the same rep range, so I was nowhere close to my pre-injury ranges.
The weirdest thing about this was that the cramp / pain just came out of nowhere, without any previous signs or early notifications. I spent yesterday mostly laying on the couch with my feet up doing some light stuff around the apartment.
The pain is worse when getting up, bending forward and sitting for extended periods of time. Standing up it feels better and walking seems to alleviate things somewhat.
I booked a doctors appointment (and asked for an MRI as well), but judging from my previous experience they are often pretty unknowledgeable when it comes to training stuff and I bought your back pain rehab program, but now I wonder if I should have bought the hip program after all or if it even matters that much.
I’ve attached a sort of map of the areas where I feel the pain the most. It seems to be focused on the front side, with a kind of pulsating / tingling kind of feeling. I feel it most intensely right in the middle of my quads and in my testicles.
What do?
Again, thank you in advance.