It’s a common occurrence with my scoliosis, so I wasn’t surprised when I once again hurt my back yesterday morning.

I had stood up and turned only slightly to my right, to put the TV remote down behind me, and felt a familiar tweak in my left sacroiliac joint muscles, followed by the eye-watering pain that accompanies this.

A day later, I am still hobbling around – sitting or lying down, everything is fine, but rolling over is agony, getting up from even a seated position is agony, and it takes a minute for me to be able to straighten up when standing.

I Know This Feeling…

It will likely last a few more days before there is only a slight ache, but do you know what I am still able to do?

Pivot.

No problem.

I am still working on the progressive drill exercise for the upcoming video, and having taken a few days off from rehabbing the shoulder to let the joint and muscles rest, that’s feeling pretty good now.

In fact, I would likely have booked a swing session at the simulator to test it out this week, except now I can’t walk well enough to make it there.

Pivoting meanwhile, working out the pivoting exercise?  Not an issue.

There is pain standing still, but once I’m pivoting, there’s nothing until I make a full pivot, downswing and turn, then the pain is there just standing balanced on the leading foot.

Standing hurts.  Pivoting doesn’t.

Now, if that doesn’t tell you that a proper, mechanically-sound golf swing pivot shouldn’t injure your back (or knee, or whatever else), I don’t know what can.

Pros and amateurs alike are damaging their backs swinging a golf club, but even with a back injury, I can pivot and swing as hard as I wish to without a care in the world about additional injury.

I found this out, and the old-timers here know the story well, when I visited WAX Nation citizen DKondo out in Arizona for a golf summit back in 2016.

I had tweaked my back reaching for a pint of beer on the coffee table two nights before I departed, could barely tie my shoes, was bent over double after the six-hour flight to Phoenix, yet the day after arrival, during the lunch break of the summit, I was banging out drives over 300 yards even while I could only tee up the ball with some effort and teeth-gritting,

If anyone tells you that swinging a golf club is eventually going to hurt your back because that’s the nature of golf, then you need to give that person a wide berth, and make sure you don’t listen to anything else they have to say about the golf swing.

I’ll now hoist myself painfully from my office chair and hobble the few steps to the sofa so I can straighten myself out, then continue with the pivot exercises.