Powerlifting & Back Pain
How to manage squat, bench, and deadlift training while protecting performance and responding to symptoms.
A painful lift may reflect an acute injury, fatigue, a sudden workload change, technique, sleep, illness, or unrelated back pain. Bar path and spinal position are data, not a diagnosis. Lumbar flexion is not automatically injury and neutral is not a guarantee.
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