Sprains revealing the problem?

Hello,

I just wondered if anyone else has had a similar experience.

Throughout my 20s I regularly “sprained” my back doing innocuous things, like putting something down etc. This would ramp up pain levels significantly. The pain was always there before these “incidents”.

I was always told it was mechanical which makes complete sense and I’m sure an element of it was.

But did anyone else frequently hurt themselves with or without diagnosis? I’m reading a lot about mechanical stress triggering AS and just interested in others experiences.

I also wonder if AS is in the “background” that injuries or minor sprains can be triggered more easily?

Or that the pain is extreme and very disproportionate to the activity?