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Sure, until you herniate your lower back doing deadlifts. Then what?

You're not going to herniate a disc getting up to a 135lb deadlift. But a 135lb deadlift would probably make most people's chronic lower back pain go away.

One can easily injure their spine lifting 10kg, nevermind ~60, as you claim.

recommending deadlifting to people with backpain sounds completely insane. At the minimum they should tell to do strength exercice under the strict supervision of a very good professional

How does one identify a very good professional? Serious question. I want to get started but I have no idea how to know who to trust.

You can't, basically. All the certifications are scams. The best is the CSCS but even that is watered down.

Buy Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe and read it front to back. Then watch his videos/DVDs. Then execute the movements per the book and video them.

I wouldn’t ask someone working at the gym, but rather someone working as a doctor, like a physiotherapist.

Look for a Starting Strength coach here: https://startingstrength.org/site/coaches

Yeah, I guess I should have specified that I'm assuming you're not trying to DL 135 on your first workout.

I love DLs, but you need to learn to do them properly. You can herniate a disc brushing your teeth.

What DLs do as a side effect is teach people how to pick up things properly. Most people are too tight in the their ankles, hips, and rest of their posterior chain so they are picking things up incorrectly all day long. This sets them up for injury. Learning to DL properly is a great way to teach how to properly pick thing up, and I agree it will likely help with most people's back pain. But, doing anything improperly can cause injury.

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