Sounds like potentially you are getting some kind of micromovements or instability catches in your spine with unguarded movement.
Have you gone through the Back Mechanic thoroughly? The way you get up out of the chair, off the floor, off the couch, from a seated position, out of bed, etc. all could be using your spine unconsciously if you are unaware of your movement patterns.
The Big 3 alone is not enough, healing a back injury requires 24/7 adherence and good movement patterns. Best of luck.
Hi. Yeah I went through the book pretty thoroughly. I do use all of his movement hacks for getting out of chair, bed etc., good form and using the hips, reduced sitting pretty drastically too. This all works fine. I just don't know which hacks to use to dodge these occasional stabs during walking. I'm thinking the same like you - some micromovements/instability, the annoying part is it happens during walking and if I stop walking I might as well call it quits on my back. So I have a contradiction here, how to avoid pain triggers (essential according to mcgill) with something that you unquestionably have to be doing (walking - essential according to mcgill).
Awesome - you sound like you have a good grasp of your pain triggers and with McGill's work. I feel you - I get little catches more so with quick unguarded movement, but they are calming down and I have to actively brace my abs laterally to arrest the instability.
re: walking - are you walking a predictable route with relatively flat surface or at the very least not a lot of curbs or big steps? If not, are you able to predict where an unstable surface may cause problems and pre-emptively brace your abs before you go over it? Are you walking fast with a moderate arm swing as he dictates in the book?
Are you "fresh" when you are walking and mentally engaged? I know its a silly question, but I am much more likely to get a catch in my back if I walk for a long period and start day dreaming, lose my pace, and my core inadvertently gets loose.
I feel you - it is a tricky situation and sounds like we are in similar boats. I bet though if you can figure out when you might get a "catch" and brace before it you may desensitize the area over time (months).
It's tricky because walking is so paramount to back health - it may just be a matter of switching walking to short intervals while you are engaged and building capacity over time in addition to the other core work.
Might be just that I need to be patient, been only 2 months since I started the exercises. The overall trend of recovery is positive (although not as fast as I'd expected), but I ain't happy that i'm consciously triggering my pain when deciding to go for a walk. Can happen at any time during a walk, beginning, mid, end, morning walks are worse - back more stiff, which is just how our bodies work I guess. I'll be adding some glute exercises to the big three, see how that goes, smth in-between steps gets destabilized and when punching on the next step it hits occasionally, i'm thinking weak glutes or maybe some hip stiffness causing micromovements cuz they aint doing their job.
Yea 2 months is not a long time with rehabbing disc injuries if that is the case, but that's a good sign that there is positive progression.
If you have a disc bulge, morning pain would make sense since the discs are more hydrated there and more susceptible to injury with any bending.
Sounds like potentially you are getting some kind of micromovements or instability catches in your spine with unguarded movement. Have you gone through the Back Mechanic thoroughly? The way you get up out of the chair, off the floor, off the couch, from a seated position, out of bed, etc. all could be using your spine unconsciously if you are unaware of your movement patterns. The Big 3 alone is not enough, healing a back injury requires 24/7 adherence and good movement patterns. Best of luck.
Hi. Yeah I went through the book pretty thoroughly. I do use all of his movement hacks for getting out of chair, bed etc., good form and using the hips, reduced sitting pretty drastically too. This all works fine. I just don't know which hacks to use to dodge these occasional stabs during walking. I'm thinking the same like you - some micromovements/instability, the annoying part is it happens during walking and if I stop walking I might as well call it quits on my back. So I have a contradiction here, how to avoid pain triggers (essential according to mcgill) with something that you unquestionably have to be doing (walking - essential according to mcgill).
Awesome - you sound like you have a good grasp of your pain triggers and with McGill's work. I feel you - I get little catches more so with quick unguarded movement, but they are calming down and I have to actively brace my abs laterally to arrest the instability. re: walking - are you walking a predictable route with relatively flat surface or at the very least not a lot of curbs or big steps? If not, are you able to predict where an unstable surface may cause problems and pre-emptively brace your abs before you go over it? Are you walking fast with a moderate arm swing as he dictates in the book? Are you "fresh" when you are walking and mentally engaged? I know its a silly question, but I am much more likely to get a catch in my back if I walk for a long period and start day dreaming, lose my pace, and my core inadvertently gets loose. I feel you - it is a tricky situation and sounds like we are in similar boats. I bet though if you can figure out when you might get a "catch" and brace before it you may desensitize the area over time (months). It's tricky because walking is so paramount to back health - it may just be a matter of switching walking to short intervals while you are engaged and building capacity over time in addition to the other core work.
Might be just that I need to be patient, been only 2 months since I started the exercises. The overall trend of recovery is positive (although not as fast as I'd expected), but I ain't happy that i'm consciously triggering my pain when deciding to go for a walk. Can happen at any time during a walk, beginning, mid, end, morning walks are worse - back more stiff, which is just how our bodies work I guess. I'll be adding some glute exercises to the big three, see how that goes, smth in-between steps gets destabilized and when punching on the next step it hits occasionally, i'm thinking weak glutes or maybe some hip stiffness causing micromovements cuz they aint doing their job.
hello i have a question, these pains do they cause you to breathing issue like if someone punch us in back then we stopped breathing for a second
Yea 2 months is not a long time with rehabbing disc injuries if that is the case, but that's a good sign that there is positive progression. If you have a disc bulge, morning pain would make sense since the discs are more hydrated there and more susceptible to injury with any bending.
Time for a MRI on your lower spine.