How does a PT who understands pain react to an “injury” while working out? Part 8

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

How did you know which exercises were ok to do and which weren’t?

Thats the great thing…I didn’t. I didn’t know what my new system would be able to tolerate and what it wouldn’t be able to tolerate. But there is a general starting point that would LIKELY be ok for a lot of people in my situation. The exercises that I started with are among the least physically demanding on my highly sensitive low back, so it makes it less likely to exacerbate my pain. It doesn’t mean it’s impossible to exacerbate my pain with these exercises, just less likely. It was a still a game of educated guessing. (Most medicine is a game of educated guessing. There is no one size fits all for medication. There is usually a baseline dosage or a usual medication, and then the physician can adjust that dosage or change the medication based on how your react. Every single individual human is so different there will likely never be a single treatment that will help every single person 100% of the time). There are ways to regress even further and make it even less physically demanding than I made it in case I couldn’t tolerate those exercises.