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Originally Posted by anoopbal
Don't worry.You will be fine. Most low back injuries goes away in like 3-4 weeks with or without any treatment.
You signing a waiver or informed consent doesn't really hold up in court as long as you can prove that they were negligent. It also depends on your state laws too.
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Good post.
PAgirl, it just sounds like a muscular injury, and you will most likely be fine.
It doesn't sound like the trainer was necessarily negligent. Perhaps inexperienced, but not negligent. There is no way of knowing by looking at someone that lifting 35 pounds off the floor will throw their backs out. As an experienced trainer I
may have caught it, but I can't know for sure since I wasn't there.
My point is, one time picking up a light weight and injuring yourself may point to some serious weakness in the muscles that are proprioceptively responsible for protecting your lower back. You can't just "throw your back out" like that in one instance... That is years of compensating, and it revealed itself at that moment.
I get people all the time who tell me they were "just fine" and "threw their backs out picking up a newspaper." They really threw their backs out years before that when they took a desk job (or whatever they did that made them neglect their posterior chain).
The fact that you are an avid runner actually makes a good case for that. Runners are inherently not qualified to lift weights because their hips/glutes are so weak. Like I said, if I knew this about you and I started to train you, I may have caught it. I would have also probably recognized that you had poor posture throughout your movement (after doing a movement screen) and started with some foundation training. I just hate to second guess someone without knowing all the facts.
All that being said, I don't even know why our contracts have a hold-harmless clause on them... They mean absolutely nothing. If they did, I wouldn't have to carry millions of dollars worth of liability insurance. Fortunately I have never had to file a claim. It doesn't stop insurance from going up every year though. I think I'm in the wrong industry.
I am in the process of refunding a woman at my facility right now who bought some training and while working out with one of my trainers, "popped" her sternum. It hurt, but it was a minor injury. She got it doing partial bench dips. Her doctor was a typical hysterical overreactor who told her to give up weight training now and forever, and that she should have just stuck to running. Regardless of the fault or severity, I will refund her.
Honestly, doctors are some of the most ignorant people I have ever encountered when it comes to resistance training/biomechanics. Even orthos (especially orthos). They are trained to repair something torn, which makes them glorified plumbers, but not once through all my shoulder surgeries did I have one of them assess my posture and observe that I had short pec minor, weak lower traps. Nope... A
trainer had to point that out to me! Doctors are quite simply not qualified to tell you how to train, but that doesn't stop them from doing it.
You wouldn't want me cutting you open and stapling your joints together... You shouldn't take training advice from a doc, unless you have legitimate tissue damage that needs to be surgically repaired. After that, listen to a physical therapist and then an experienced trainer (preferably with a good reputation, and
not new to the industry).
In my humble opinion, getting a lawyer is overkill, unless they are just being jerks.
I hope your injury gets better soon either way. Back pain sucks. It does tell me a lot about where you need to focus your future training programs, but let's reserve that for another thread.
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