Help me diagnose my back injury?

I suffer a recurring back injury approximately every 6 months. It usually occurs during an ab workout or in the days immediately following an ab workout during running.

Interestingly enough, the first time it occured about 10-15 years ago, I was in bed yawning and stretching when it happened.

The pain is intense even when lying down and not moving. I can feel it specifically in my middle back. If I really mess it up, just breathing is painful in the middle back.

When I touch my chin to my neck, that specific area of my middle back tightens and is where the pain is coming from.

I usually try to stretch out that area by touching my chin to my chest, and even when it isnt injured, this causes minor discomfort associated with a stretching exercise, so clearly there's some tightness there for me due to previous injury possibly.

Anyone ever experience this and have it properly diagnosed?

Anyone know the specific name of that muscle or back area?

Been a long time since I had an anatomy class, but I am familiar with what your back appears to be doing, as mine does the same thing. You said this tends to happen during or around the same time as ab workouts? This can occur when some muscles in your body are stronger than others and cause the stronger muscles to pull your back out of place. This is also common if you had a previous subluxation of that specific part of your back or even the same vertebra. Uneven muscle strength is the most common cause of this injury that isn't directly related to having been moving boxes all day or that sort of thing.

See a chiropractor and have him or her adjust your back into its proper alignment. Sounds like it will take a few sessions. He or she may then recommend some workouts just for that part of your back. From where you said it hurts, it could be the lower portion of the trapezius, the infraspinatus or the latissimus that's doing most of the bad pulling here. Of those three muscles it's most likely the first two, as the latter is lowest of the three. I took the liberty of sending you a link to a correct diagram of the muscles and bones associated with your injury.

Take some ibuprofen or something along those lines for now, and especially before and after your appointment with a health care professional. Best of luck with this, take care.

Oh, and a massage may help to relax the muscles before an adjustment of the vertebrae and stop the muscles from spasming (which is what they technically are doing when they pull the vertebrae wrong).

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