How does a PT who understands pain react to an “injury” while working out? Part 7

I’ll answer some of the questions I posed in my own personal low back pain “injury” story.

Why would you tell someone to stop when they are starting to get more and more soreness/pain while deadlifting?

If you’re doing an activity and you’re feeling more and more pain, with an increased intensity, while doing that activity, that’s your brain telling you something. It doesn’t like that activity. It doesn’t mean you’re already injured, it means if you keep doing what you’re doing, your brain THINKS there is potential for you to get injured based on all the information it has. Your brain believes that activity is dangerous to your health. It’s trying to get you to change your behavior. If you don’t listen to your brain, that pain can get worse and worse until you have no choice but to listen or you actually do physically injure yourself.