My Story

When I was a junior in high school, I experienced my first injury as a Varsity athlete.  This was really my first nagging injury from the way I trained.  Near the end of one of my basketball games I had jumped up to grab a rebound, and when I came down an immediate shock went through my lower back.  During the heat of the moment, I didn’t think to much of it, but when the game ended and my adrenaline started to slow down, my lower back started to tighten up so much that I couldn’t even bend over to take my shoes off.  I went to see the trainer and he told me I was having lower back spasms and asked what my lifts were like that week.  I explained to him what I was doing, and he said that my lower back has probably had too much stress on it the last couple days without enough rest. 

As my back healed, I certainly did not want this to happen again.  My steps from there were to just strength my back as much I could.  Senior year of high school rolls around to about the same time as the previous year and it happens again, this time as I am lifting a dumbbell off the rack during one of my lifts.  I then realized how I was using too much of my back to lift the weights and not enough of my core and legs.  I also realized that this could be something I need to be conscience of for the rest of life.  Fast forward to the most recent time this has happened is freshman year of college, I bent over to pick up a baseball and boom, my lower back started spazzing out on me.  After that moment I became more aware of my posture of all times.  Each time my lower back would spaz out I would have to rest it with ice the rest of the day, and I was lucky to be able to move well again the next day.  Learning how to preform lifts and movements with a good posture and with better range of motion has helped my back stay injury free for the last two years.