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It honestly has nothing to do with form. I had to stop doing back squats because of it before. Looks like deadlifts may be next.
Mine is a problem where the bone "hooks" of the spine that lock together never formed into bone. It's just cartilage on one side of a vertebrae that is locking my lower spine into place. The problem is that when the spine is put under tension, it relies on the bone structure of the spine to maintain alignment. Because part of my spine never calcified into bone, the cartilage isn't strong enough to keep it from slipping. So, my lower back muscles have to take over if it slips out and they just aren't built to prevent that from happening. All of that = pain.
I switched to front squats and split squats because it put far less weight on my back. Deadlifts may have to go now. It wasn't even a heavy DL. It was only 275. The first two reps were fine and clean, but it just let go on the third one.
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