Thread: mid back pain

hello, I hope anybody has an answer to my question:

I work out 3-4 times a week, im not a really a heavy weight lifter, I just like to have some muscles and be ripped. Well the problem started about 3 months ago, a sharp pain in my mid back wakes me up every night after sleeping 5-6 hours, it goes away after few minutes of stretching and throughout the day I feel perfect, no back pain, no nothing, the pain only bothers me when I sleep more than 5 hours, please if anybody know the cause and the solution post a message.

I had a similar pain just below my shoulder blades at certain points. My sports trainer ( for our school ) told me I was very unflexible in my back and this was part of the problem. I think what he told me was that my "lateral tendon" was stretched to tightly across my spine. It was onset by a hard sneeze one day ( this sounds so frufru ) and it persisted into football season. After putting heat on it every morning and having him push on my back with the right breathing techniques and stretching my back 10-15 times over a chair every class ( 5-7 times a day ) it gradually went away.