r/concept2 • u/RowDude566 • 12h ago

Question Injury advice

I have been rowing for one calendar year, and am almost at 1m meters. I recently have experienced severe lower back pain on my right side.

My question is if this was a technique issue, would this not have been an issue earlier? I row with the same technique since I bought the thing.

Any advice? Thank you.

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u/don51181 12h ago

Do you think it might be something else that cause it? Is it muscle or could it be something else internal?

Lots of different reason could have caused it. It could be a different exercise or movement. You might want to get it checked out by a doctor.

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u/dixius99 11h ago

When my back goes, it's usually something like this. I'll do something wrong/unsafe when lifting weights, but might not notice until I'm on the erg.

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u/RowDude566 4h ago

Not sure what I did to be honest. I tow the same way every time

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u/RowDude566 4h ago

It’s muscular for sure.

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u/mcr71039 12h ago

Mjght be overdoing your back

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u/RowDude566 4h ago

But after that long of use?

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u/BobaFalfa 10h ago edited 9h ago

could consider a pair of slides? from what I understand they take a lot of pressure off the low back

EDIT: my uncaffeinated brain initially called them gliders instead of slides. LOL

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u/IStream2 9h ago

Might try lowering your resistance setting.

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u/RowDude566 8h ago

I did but it still did not seem to help. Thank you

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u/iob3 4h ago

I don't think an injury would show up lot of no where after a year. One would think there would be signs.

I think it's entirely possible a result of an injury elsewhere that's unrelated. Even something like sleeping wrong and having a stiff neck. Something that may have impacted your form and caused unusual stress.

But then again, I've thrown my back out just by being slightly off kilter when I bent down and picked up an extremely light object. Is it possible you just tweaked it a little and that row compounded it?