Hey Jordan and Austin,
For starters I am a 30 Year Old male who has mainly done IT work for the last 10 years. So long hours in front of a desk for the most part. I started SS in August. Started with no weights and worked my way up. In about October I started having neck and trap pain. I stopped for a while and the pain came back. I got an MRI this was the report I got back. (I did get a SS coach to correct my form. At this point I was not lifting very heavy. Squat: 135, DL: 135, Press: 85, Bench 165)
C3-C4: Small Central Disc Protrusion. No Thecal Sac Compression. No Neural foraminal Stenosis. No Facet Joint arthrosis.
C4-5: Small Central Disc Protrusion. No Thecal Sac Compression. No Neural foraminal Stenosis. No Facet Joint arthrosis.
C6-7: Right posterior lateral disco osteophyte. No Thecal Sac Compression. No Neural foraminal Stenosis. No Facet Joint arthrosis.
Any recommendations or any moves I should be avoiding?
I do think these issues are from bad posture for so long and maybe bad form during other kinds of past training.
I wonder whether these MRI findings actually have anything to do with your pain, or if you just happened to develop some nonspecific neck pain and have some incidental MRI findings that you can attribute to it. I doubt these are the result of “bad posture”.
I would continue training.
I forgot to mention is that I did have some light radiculopathy along with it. I had sensation loss in my pinky and some odd feeling in my thumb and index finger(right side only). It wasn’t full blown numbness but this is what triggered me to get an MRI in the first place. I dont feel like most moves bother me but Bench Press had an effect. I started to bench with my head not being rested on the bench just left in normal anatomical position.
I see. It’s still not a straightforward correlation between those symptoms and what’s described on the MRI, so I still don’t see a reason for dramatic activity modifications given that you only reported some minor sensory symptoms, and that the natural history of this is to improve on its own (even the “disk issues” are likely to heal).