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Strained back muscle
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Hi Everyone, I have also had a similar problem recently with the pain you are describing. My question is how do we prevent this from happening? Is it stretching or conditioning? Any thoughts?
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I would say properly warming up your back (we usually focus on legs and arms) and making sure to properly engage everything that needs to be engaged when poling. Being able to properly keep your shoulders down and back during the full course of an invert takes strength, so maybe conditioning for that.
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I had the same problem when I first started doing inverts. It was really bad. Coughing was painful. I waited for a month but it didn’t get any better. So I went to see a physio therapist. I got much better after only two sessions of treatment. According to the therapist, the deep muscle tissue was torn and crumpled, and it was beyond the reach of normal massage, so I got ultrasound treatment.
I realize that the pain comes from not being able to really control my movement, like kick up or come down from inverts suddenly. If I engage all the muscle and control the inverts, less pain happens.
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Pain like this is commonly an intercostal, rhomboid, or muscles of the scapula.
Prevent it by warming up of course but most of all invert with control! A swing of the leg is fine as long as the upper body is placed correctly along the pole. This is how you hold the scapula correctly and perform a proper invert without jerking your upper body. Placement, using a Side Pole Hold, is so important when inverting, use the arm pit and save your back! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ3V_2DsxgE
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Thank you Veena for posting this lesson in response to our discussion. I remember seeing it a while back. I think I speak for everyone when I say I really appreciate your expert knowledge and fabulous resource of your website!!!
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You are very welcome! xoxo
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