Lower back pain from doing deadlifts?

Question:

I've been working out for twelve years and have always done deadlifts. I use good form and a weight belt and I wasn't lifting more weight than usual, but a few hours after my workout yesterday I got a nagging pain in my lower back that radiates to my right side; I've never felt this before, and I woke up with it today as well. It's not a terrible pain, only a 4 on a scale of 1-10. Has anyone else gotten a pain like this, and is it worth going to the doctor or should I give it a few days? I know that I shouldn't lift again until it feels better. Thanks.

Answers:
I used to do deadlifts all the time. I would get similar pain. I would just make sure I drank protein afterwards to make sure my muscle rebuilt themselves, and would not do deadlift but only once or twice a week, but lift heavily. If you do deadlifts too often, it will mess up your back. Your back is very sensitive to those kinds of lifts, and the spinal cartilage you have is only once you get it, and if you damage it, your screwed. However, softer cartilage does repair itself. If you over do it and injure the non-repairable cartilage, you'll have to have surgery. When lifting, just make sure you are starring straight up, and feet planted comfortably, whether wide stances, or not wide. However your body type is. Lift with your legs, not your back, that is how you deadlift. Otherwise, disk in your lower back get messed up. Do a lot of back extensions on off days, to help strengthen that area then a few days later after that rest, do deadlifts. Also, if you do legs presses, that helps your deadlift a lot, because then, your legs muscles are more powerful to be able to deadlift when using your legs to get the weight off the ground in the squatting position.

I've gotten this pain before too. Mine was from not doing deadlifts for sometime and then trying to do too many reps coming back. I would rest for a little while longer, and maybe do some light stretching. I've read that the low back muscles are some of the slowest skeletal muscles to recuperate following weight lifting.

Are you sure that when you were lifting the weights that you were in the correct posture?
Do you work out your back muscles as well?

Deadlifting can be very risky if you are in the wrong posture, as I'm sure you know after 12 years. However, even after lots of experience, people can still go into a bad position by mistake.

After your workout did you do anything else strenuous or even sit awkwardly in a chair? Sometimes the smallest thing can cause an ache. You may have laid wrongly in bed or something similar.

If the pain gets worse, or doesn't go away within a week from when you first felt it, it may be a good idea to see a doctor. Make sure you take it easy with the work outs until you are completely better.

I hope you feel better soon :)

Lower back pain from doing deadlifts?

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