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Any tips on dealing with injuries whilst lifting? I got a partial tear and minor back tweaks while doing super light rdls but with an extreme ROM without bracing. I will keep working out but how do you deal with injuries psychologically and not be afraid of having a much bigger one in the future? I got my tear this June and have been using super light weights so that I slowly get back and started PT but I am sometimes afraid mentally even if there is no pain. My back tweak did go away after sleeping for 8 hours, i usually get 5, got 3 the day i fucked my back up.
The nice thing about lifting is that it's almost always possible to do something productive that doesn't piss off the injury. (In an endurance context, similarly, a well-known triathlon coach says "as a multisport athlete, you usually have at least one that's going well."). ROM, tempo, exercise selection, upper body pump on the machines, whatever. John Sarno's concrete advice and explanations are probably wrong but he's probably mostly right in spirit. The Painscience.com guy is also pretty good. While I can't endorse Starting Strength as an organization, I appreciate having been exposed to Rip's attitude about injury (it happens, it heals, there's usually something you can do to keep moving) early in my personal physical culture history. My training injuries don't generally hurt that much, the distress comes from not knowing when or if I'll be able to get back to what I was doing, so knowing that I can still do something alleviates my distress considerably.
I agree with @gog about physical therapy, with one sorta-caveat--a good physical therapist can help calm you down if you're spun up and suggest exercise modalities that don't piss off the injury. The downside is that you generally don't know who's going to do this and who's going to give you a stream of soothing babble and, like, Graston therapy and icing until you've shopped around a bit.
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