KingBeans
Level 4 Valued Member
As the title says, I've been experiencing lower back pain but only on one side. It has been present in one form or another for as long as I remember. If I flex my core, the left side of my lower back feels tighter than the right, if I do back raises, that side "feels the burn" faster.
I did a walking challenge a while back and constant daily treadmill walking led to my left hip and lower back seizing up for months. After a lot of stretching, mobility and banded side steps, it's been feeling mostly okay.
I was recently doing deadlifts and felt a pop or pull in that side and now that stiffness, tightness and (mild) pain is back. It's hard to isolate the pain, it's definitely not surface-level, I definitely can't touch the muscle that hurts.
It hurts when I bend over but doesn't seem effected by bearing the weight of picking something up. Troubleshooting a bit this morning I discovered that doing a single leg deadlift movement with something fairly light (bag of dog food) was totally fine on the left (hurt) side, but when I do a right-sided SLDL, my left lower back hurts.
I have no idea what's going on or how to address it. Any suggestions?
I did a walking challenge a while back and constant daily treadmill walking led to my left hip and lower back seizing up for months. After a lot of stretching, mobility and banded side steps, it's been feeling mostly okay.
I was recently doing deadlifts and felt a pop or pull in that side and now that stiffness, tightness and (mild) pain is back. It's hard to isolate the pain, it's definitely not surface-level, I definitely can't touch the muscle that hurts.
It hurts when I bend over but doesn't seem effected by bearing the weight of picking something up. Troubleshooting a bit this morning I discovered that doing a single leg deadlift movement with something fairly light (bag of dog food) was totally fine on the left (hurt) side, but when I do a right-sided SLDL, my left lower back hurts.
I have no idea what's going on or how to address it. Any suggestions?