I believe Dr. Baraki will remember me since I contacted him on the forums, the facebook group, the personal messaging here and the Instagram direct messages. I was the poster of this topic: Lower back stiffness and hip pain. MRI pics and doctor advice included. - Medical Q/A with Drs. Feigenbaum & Baraki - Barbell Medicine Forum
I took two weeks of break after hurting myself, although Dr. Baraki told me otherwise, and the pain didn’t go away so I said “Well, you screwed your back up anyway, it probably won’t get any worse” and started doing the bridge. After the rack pulls on the first day my back pain, ankle pain and hip pain just went away in a day, leaving me with lots of questions:
1- Was it a coincidence or does lifting really help us fix the problems caused by lifting? If so, what’s the mechanism there?
2- Does it prove that my spine is fine as the brain surgeon I talked to told me? If so, what caused all the pain?
3- I’m loving the variaty and easiness of bridge 1.0 but after the pain went away I started thinking about whether I could milk 20 more kilos on the SS NLP or not because I ended my NLP very early at 80 kilo squats. Right now, following the bridge (completed first week today), I feel like I’m not getting much done after a workout. During the SS NLP I’d know that the last set of squats were going to feel like shit, and they always did, and I’d grind and grind and grind and when I complete a day, it’d give me a feeling of accomplishing something. Should I try the SS NLP once again? I’m kind of afraid that it may hurt me once more but I miss increasing the weigth on the bar.
Thanks for all the help and not blocking me.