what is causing neck disks bulge?

[dmitry]

Good morning,

Something is causing my neck disks to develop bulges b/w c4/5 and c5/6. Mri 2 years back shows no bulges. Recent mri shows the bulges. A few month back i started to feel pain when i turn my head. Only do the following exercises. Squat, overhead press, dips, power clean, deadlift, pullups, chins. I suspect this is causes by either power clean or dips. I'm going to replace power clean with power snatch and see it that helps. What else can i do to identify what is causing this?
Thanks.

[Mark Rippetoe]

How old are you, and where do you work?

[dmitry]

i am 37. A programmer. I hypnotize a computer monitor all day long.
First hurt my neck about 2 years ago, doing neck rolls. That forced me replaces benches with dips. Benches were making my pain recur. About 1,5 years later started to feel the pain again. Even w/o benches this time.
Heavy squats make me drop elbows and lean forward on the 2 last reps. Aside from power clean or dips, maybe this leaning forward is causing the problem?
regards, Dmitry

[Mark Rippetoe]

I'd have to see the squats and benches.

[Luke S]

Couldn't neck cranking during chin-ups be contributing to this?

[Immortal_k]

Make sure you're not reaching with your neck at the top of chinups just to get an extra rep in. That use to put a lot of stress on my neck, I've since wised up.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Couldn't neck cranking during chin-ups be contributing to this?

No. Disks aren't that delicate unless they're already injured.

[neilc1]

as a programmer,
any changes to your work station ?
, , , the ergonomics there?

[Rob Israel]

Why is the exercise the first thing to be considered as the culprit? Hypnotizing monitors is dangerous work!

There is plenty of data that points to the fact that 8-10 hours bad static positions (posture, people) will cause you a lot more harm than 20 seconds of shitty squats. (assuming they are even shitty)

We seemed to be conditioned to blame the movement for our pain and not what we do during the other 22 hours of the day. For all we know you are doing more harm to the area sleeping.

[dmitry]

http://youtu.be/SdW6hXhDTw0 - squat
http://youtu.be/FYjrHx3uXj0 - press
http://youtu.be/NYwRap6PGzk - powerclean
http://youtu.be/OEFOS_ueTvA - dips
http://youtu.be/o167Wp0Chzk - chins

No bench video. I replaced bench with dips about 1.5 years ago. That replacement helped until a few month ago things got even worse.
regards, Dmitry