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I will give you 2 major pieces of advice.

1 - Don't go to basketball coaches for health advice!
2. - don't go to strength trainers for health advice!

Your first step should be to go to a qualified athletic trainer. Preferably one that knows you, probably the trainer who worked with you at school. Have him do an evaluation and if necessary, refer you to a sport medicine specialist who has extensive experience in this particular issue.

If it is necessary for you to rehab, do not do it yourself. Hire an qualified athletic trainer, not a strength coach, but a trainer with a sports medicine degree. It was probably you making your own decisions or listening to the wrong people that got you into this mess. I really don't think that deadlifts are the correct exercises for someone with back issues.

Next, you need to check your priorities. You have back issues that have forced you to sit out a year and have given yo trouble walking. fighting through it is NOT toughness, it is stupidity. Tracy McGrady did it for $100 million and to insure his future. You are risking your health for the rest of your life for some crap overseas job where you have a higher probability of not getting paid than you do of cashing any checks (that's what happens in International Basketball).

You should not do anything until you are healthy enough to do so. If you get hurt over there, they do not rehab you, they cut you and sign someone else.

Author:	natewill18 [ 08 Dec 2010, 03:57 ]
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I'm training for upcoming camps and tryouts to play overseas. I'm a 6'7" wingman and since college I've always had ridiculous back spasms and pains (like Tracy McGrady type pains lol) when I ran alot and dipped my back to get low on defense. I played through it at the price of having a hard time walking ( took a year off of basketball after college). My strength coach told me I needed to stretch more and make my back stronger (deadlifts, etc) even though I'm 232 and have been lifting effectively since HS. So I did all these things but it decreased my back pain just slightly. I went to a doctor and he said the same thing about strengthing my back with some weightless back exercises. I need to get in pinnacle shape for next year and I don't want my back stopping me from getting a great conditioning workout. Any tips from experience ?

Author:	kelbickd [ 09 Dec 2010, 14:12 ]
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I will give you 2 major pieces of advice. 1 - Don't go to basketball coaches for health advice! 2. - don't go to strength trainers for health advice! Your first step should be to go to a qualified athletic trainer. Preferably one that knows you, probably the trainer who worked with you at school. Have him do an evaluation and if necessary, refer you to a sport medicine specialist who has extensive experience in this particular issue. If it is necessary for you to rehab, do not do it yourself. Hire an qualified athletic trainer, not a strength coach, but a trainer with a sports medicine degree. It was probably you making your own decisions or listening to the wrong people that got you into this mess. I really don't think that deadlifts are the correct exercises for someone with back issues. Next, you need to check your priorities. You have back issues that have forced you to sit out a year and have given yo trouble walking. fighting through it is NOT toughness, it is stupidity. Tracy McGrady did it for $100 million and to insure his future. You are risking your health for the rest of your life for some crap overseas job where you have a higher probability of not getting paid than you do of cashing any checks (that's what happens in International Basketball). You should not do anything until you are healthy enough to do so. If you get hurt over there, they do not rehab you, they cut you and sign someone else.

Author:	natewill18 [ 09 Dec 2010, 17:55 ]
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kelbickd wrote: I will give you 2 major pieces of advice. 1 - Don't go to basketball coaches for health advice! 2. - don't go to strength trainers for health advice! Your first step should be to go to a qualified athletic trainer. Preferably one that knows you, probably the trainer who worked with you at school. Have him do an evaluation and if necessary, refer you to a sport medicine specialist who has extensive experience in this particular issue. If it is necessary for you to rehab, do not do it yourself. Hire an qualified athletic trainer, not a strength coach, but a trainer with a sports medicine degree. It was probably you making your own decisions or listening to the wrong people that got you into this mess. I really don't think that deadlifts are the correct exercises for someone with back issues. Next, you need to check your priorities. You have back issues that have forced you to sit out a year and have given yo trouble walking. fighting through it is NOT toughness, it is stupidity. Tracy McGrady did it for $100 million and to insure his future. You are risking your health for the rest of your life for some crap overseas job where you have a higher probability of not getting paid than you do of cashing any checks (that's what happens in International Basketball). You should not do anything until you are healthy enough to do so. If you get hurt over there, they do not rehab you, they cut you and sign someone else. thanks man, you just dropped knowledge bomb on me. lol I'll make sure to take care of myself before going further with anything else. appreciate it

Author:	kelbickd [ 09 Dec 2010, 18:07 ]
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Let me know if I can help you

Author:	natewill18 [ 09 Dec 2010, 18:28 ]
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kelbickd wrote: Let me know if I can help you Well I'm about to hit up my college trainer and go from there, but if I need some help with anything I'll be sure to ask you for help. I just hope you don't forget about me lol

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Author:	jimbiggs [ 21 Dec 2010, 22:20 ]
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Good advice from Don there. I'm 6'8" and I also experienced back spasms in college. Our other taller players did also. It could have something to do with longer muscles or something. I was able to eliminate the pain by spending extra time stretching my hamstings, back and glutes before and after practices. All those muscles on the back side of your body work together. There's no way I could describe the stretches online and I won't try. We got four or five stretches from a chiropracter and that helped us a lot. Good luck.

Author:	kelbickd [ 22 Dec 2010, 12:58 ]
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Your problem is not unusual for a big person. There is a tendon that follows the Iliotibial tract from the upper thigh, around the hip and inserts in the large muscles of the lower back. Often, when person goes through a growth spurt(s) that is necessary for someone to grow to your size (in real life, you are pretty big, in basketball, not so much), that tendon does not grow as quickly or in proportion to the bone structure. This causes lower back pain and spasms. Often, when you look at someone of great size they will have almost a "swayback" appearance because of it. Good physical therapy and a long term flexibility program is often the only answer. However, I would not start on that without a thorough evaluation b professionals.

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