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The issue with Deadlifts
Think deadlifts are the way to go? What about sparing the spine by using a hex bar or dumbbells by the hips? Shorter moment arm to the lumbar spine.
Stuart McGill has something to say about deadlifts.
Old time techniques may get your across the finish line faster for longer.
https://youtu.be/tM599A6wUAw?si=8yNvMXKSO7pzT8jL
Workshops
US Naval Aeromedical Conference, NAS Pensacola Seven years ago, this journey began. Squadrons and wings invite me to teach and train the end user directly how to mitigate spine pain. You don’t have to hurt. Yet, it’s been my experience that physical therapists, CSCSs, ATCs do not have specialized experience with spine pain biomechanics. They’re unfamiliar with Dr Tom Heimburg’s work on the thermodynamics of nerves. They cannot produce an action potential after being stretched.
Stretching therefore makes us weaker when what the spine needs to not send a pain signal is strengthening.
Headache sources
Headaches. They get worse with stretching. 
Not every tissue in the body likes to be pulled on. Nerves, fascia, ligaments, joints- they don’t get better with being pulled.
The spine and skull are meant to house the brain and spinal cord. These structures can move in awkward, non- functional directions, but it doesn’t mean they appreciate it, or won’t be painful.
Stretching and bending the head and neck to the side to stretch, or to build up strength goes directly against the spine’s biomechanics.
