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Post by johnc on Jul 10, 2017 12:01:33 GMT
Who else gets a bad back. The last bad one I had was in November last year and I had to have all sorts of tablets, an osteopath and much discomfort.
I woke up on Saturday morning and I am crippled again. I can't even put my bloody socks on. Seriously pissed off! |
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Post by Blarno on Jul 10, 2017 12:10:06 GMT
I used to get them regularly after I injured myself at 19 trying to move a full 200 Litre drum of resin. It got really bad about 7 years back, bad enough for me to visit the doctor, who referred me straight to the physio. I was skeptical of physio working, but I endured and it worked wonders. Simple stretches and exercises really did the trick. Now if I get a twinge or a block of pain, I fire some ibuprofen into me and get back into the exercises ASAP - lying down or taking it too easy will just prolong it.
I'm far less prone to back pain now, but I have noticed that it is little things that set it off when it does - I was moving a small box at work a month or two back, no more than 10 kilos, and I made a small twist to lift the box onto a nearby unit. Instant crippling pain in my back. Stupidly, instead of going home immediately and firing into the exercises, I carried on working and made it worse.
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Post by ChrisM on Jul 10, 2017 12:10:21 GMT
Yes but not that bad, sometimes it just hurts really bad when I put my socks on.
Sorry to hear of your pain and hope you can get it resolved quickly
Blarno - were you given manual handling / lifting training?
I well remember one of the first things I was taught many years ago: Don't lift and turn at the same time. Lift first, and turn on your feet, do not twist your back.
Probably a little late now for you.....
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Post by LandieMark on Jul 10, 2017 12:10:55 GMT
It is very unpleasant so you have my sympathies.
I broke my back in 1995 on a horse - didn't even fall off which made it all the worse. Had two surgeries and it is now generally OK. Sitting or standing for long periods can make me feel uncomfortable, but I can handle that without medication and there are occasional times when I get a lot of pain for seemingly no good reason and I do resort to over the counter stuff. Several years of on/off severe pain was not a lot of fun so I'm very glad I don't get that now.
I had taken up golf, but the stance really played havoc with my back as I have no movement at all L5-S1.
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 10, 2017 13:01:01 GMT
I get awful lower back pain occasionally, to the extent I can't stand up, sit down or move about. Except.... I have no pain at all on the motorbike: the "Fireblade" position (no.84 in the Kama Sutra) is evidently the correct one to alleviate lower back pain. W2.0 has some painkillers to administer, donated by her sister. I looked them up and they're not available for use in the UK but are OK all over Europe.
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 10, 2017 13:17:52 GMT
It is very unpleasant so you have my sympathies. I broke my back in 1995 on a horse - didn't even fall off which made it all the worse. How?? |
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 10, 2017 13:31:55 GMT
That sounds horrible. I get a bit from time-to-time but usually either just in the neck/shoulders due to tension/muscles knots from too much desk-driving, or else simply due to having approximately the core strength of a blancmange and the posture of a wilted lettuce (eg unless I am careful to stay straight, there's something about the position I put my back in when doing the washing up at home, which gives me awful pain in the middle/lower back, but it's temporary and passes). I have started going to the office gym twice a week with a personal trainer to focus just on core strength to improve my posture and reduce stress on my back.
I am susceptible to the wrong sort of bed though – my wife persuaded me to cough up for a very expensive Vispring mattress, which is extremely supportive and comfortable, but I find now that if I spend a night in a different bed which is overly soft or has an ancient knackered mattress, it can give me back pain the next day.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 10, 2017 13:32:15 GMT
The(seemingly) large numbers of people I know who have had significant injuries due to riding horses makes glad the council issued that prohibition notice against keeping one on the balcony of our flat in Gateshead when I was a kid.
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Post by Blarno on Jul 10, 2017 13:42:27 GMT
Yes but not that bad, sometimes it just hurts really bad when I put my socks on. Sorry to hear of your pain and hope you can get it resolved quickly Blarno - were you given manual handling / lifting training? I well remember one of the first things I was taught many years ago: Don't lift and turn at the same time. Lift first, and turn on your feet, do not twist your back. Probably a little late now for you..... I've done many lifting/handling courses...since I was 19. I did my back in because I wasn't using my knees. The recent spasm with the twist was just bad luck. I had already lifted the item and was turning when it went. |
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Post by racingteatray on Jul 10, 2017 13:44:30 GMT
The(seemingly) large numbers of people I know who have had significant injuries due to riding horses makes glad the council issued that prohibition notice against keeping one on the balcony of our flat in Gateshead when I was a kid. Big problem was it? Good for fertilising the window boxes though I suppose...
I spent two weeks riding a completely insane and semi-wild stallion through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan a few years ago and to this day don't know how, as a very inexperienced rider, I didn't either die or at the very least injure myself horribly in the process.
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Post by johnc on Jul 10, 2017 13:46:27 GMT
I had taken up golf, but the stance really played havoc with my back. Maybe there is a lesson there for me! I hope not since I love my early morning games and it is now about the only sport I partake in (we walk at a considerable pace so I reckon it still counts as sport and not a good walk wasted).
All the pain is lower back which might have come from the lifting of countless engines and gearboxes etc in my 20's.
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Post by LandieMark on Jul 10, 2017 13:51:52 GMT
It is very unpleasant so you have my sympathies. I broke my back in 1995 on a horse - didn't even fall off which made it all the worse. How?? Horse started bucking and rearing like one of those rodeo bulls. I overextended my lower back staying on. I would have been better off being thrown. |
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 10, 2017 14:30:57 GMT
I am susceptible to the wrong sort of bed though – my wife persuaded me to cough up for a very expensive Vispring mattress, which is extremely supportive and comfortable, but I find now that if I spend a night in a different bed which is overly soft or has an ancient knackered mattress, it can give me back pain the next day. +1 Our last bed was a Vi-Spring and we now have one of those memory foam things (with massage inserts, FFS!). Took me ages to work out that the pillow mixed with the memory mattress was doing my neck in, so now I have a new pillow. |
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 10, 2017 15:19:01 GMT
I've had a bad back for virtually all of my nursing career - so about 30 years, give or take. We used to have to manually lift patients in & out of bed, move them up the bed etc etc, and some of them were real tubbies even then. Shifting a buddy of 20 stone+ a few dozen times a day knackers your back pretty quickly! This was long before electric hoists became commonplace in the NHS.
Add that to a knee gubbed falling out of a tree after a bad (parachute) landing as a teenager and what I reckon is either sciatica or arthritis on my right side, and I'm just about ready for the knackers' yard I think!!  |
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Post by johnc on Jul 10, 2017 15:44:11 GMT
I've had a bad back for virtually all of my nursing career - so about 30 years, give or take. We used to have to manually lift patients in & out of bed, move them up the bed etc etc, and some of them were real tubbies even then. Shifting a buddy of 20 stone+ a few dozen times a day knackers your back pretty quickly! This was long before electric hoists became commonplace in the NHS.
Add that to a knee gubbed falling out of a tree after a bad (parachute) landing as a teenager and what I reckon is either sciatica or arthritis on my right side, and I'm just about ready for the knackers' yard I think!! I hope you don't have to live with the nagging pain (no marital connection intended). I had one of the pink 400g ibuprofen left from last time so I took that this morning and I have had an "acceptable" afternoon. I'd be taking myself off to Switzerland if I had to endure that every day. |
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Post by Boxer6 on Jul 10, 2017 15:52:20 GMT
I've had a bad back for virtually all of my nursing career - so about 30 years, give or take. We used to have to manually lift patients in & out of bed, move them up the bed etc etc, and some of them were real tubbies even then. Shifting a buddy of 20 stone+ a few dozen times a day knackers your back pretty quickly! This was long before electric hoists became commonplace in the NHS.
Add that to a knee gubbed falling out of a tree after a bad (parachute) landing as a teenager and what I reckon is either sciatica or arthritis on my right side, and I'm just about ready for the knackers' yard I think!! I hope you don't have to live with the nagging pain (no marital connection intended). I had one of the pink 400g ibuprofen left from last time so I took that this morning and I have had an "acceptable" afternoon. I'd be taking myself off to Switzerland if I had to endure that every day. That pretty much what it is - a nagging pain. It's liveable with mostly, but days like today can cause a flare-up, especially in my dodgy knee. The knee was the main reason I opted for the auto option when I bought the Legacy actually, as it was pretty painful nearly all the time at that point. A year or so of brutal Italian clutch, courtesy of the Alfa GT, didn't do it any favours either; didn't stop me getting the GTI though . . . |
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Post by alf on Jul 10, 2017 17:01:06 GMT
Mine regularly niggles - and on tough hilly cycle rides its my back that makes me slow or stop before my legs these days - I am fond of ibuprofen gel. But the rest of the time its basically OK - the more exercise I do, the better it is, especially weight training and Pilates. Having seen the massive benefits of the latter on Mrs ALF, I took some lessons a few years ago and do some basic back, core, and stomach exercises and stretches most days, just 5 mins in front of the telly...
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Post by Tim on Jul 11, 2017 12:21:45 GMT
I find I get lower back pain from sitting poorly at work - no matter how well I start off I end up leaning forward to use the keyboard/mouse.
I think it's because about 10 years ago I bashed the bottom of my back off the corner of a swing top bin that was full of crockery and that really hurt a lot for several days.
I remember passengering from Bute up to Inverness and when we got there Mrs Tim had to help me out of the car. Embarassing!
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Post by franki68 on Jul 11, 2017 12:29:11 GMT
suffer terribly from them...ffs I sold the gt4 because it was killing my back.
Usually its lower back but I find training helps enormously.But just very occasionally like the last 3 days I get this back ache across the middle of my back and ribs and it kills ,hurts when you breathe.Im on some pretty strong painkillers.
Posture is critical too,I found things like crossing my legs when sitting contributes to back issues.
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Post by PG on Jul 11, 2017 13:11:13 GMT
Bascially, we're all knackered then..... I get back pain, allied to hip, knee and ankle pain. I'm about to go and be assesssed in a few weeks to be given personalised exercises to try and help. Mrs PG used to have terrible back pain. But we invested in one of these about a year ago and it has transformed her back pain. Sometimes it makes mine worse, hence the personal training visit coming up. Back in Action - Mobiliser |
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Post by Tim on Jul 11, 2017 13:36:10 GMT
Mrs Tim has had severe back pain since her mid-teens and for the last 20 years has been on a reasonably large dose of Dihydrocodeine.
She's got a massaging, heated thing that her mum bought for her and it seems to help some of the time.
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Post by alf on Jul 11, 2017 13:42:13 GMT
She's got a massaging, heated thing that her mum bought for her and it seems to help some of the time.  |
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Post by Tim on Jul 11, 2017 13:58:01 GMT
She's got a massaging, heated thing that her mum bought for her and it seems to help some of the time.
Calm yourself. it's something similar to the large pad that PG linked to.
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Post by scouse on Jul 11, 2017 15:30:27 GMT
I find an inversion table is a great thing for bad backs: although these days the shear amount of pain killers I use gets me through most days....   |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jul 11, 2017 15:41:56 GMT
^ Is that from one of those "specialist" clubs in SoHo?
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Post by Tim on Jul 11, 2017 15:44:40 GMT
That's a picture of Scouse using it!!
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Post by scouse on Jul 11, 2017 15:58:47 GMT
^ Is that from one of those "specialist" clubs in SoHo?  |
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Post by LandieMark on Jul 11, 2017 20:42:26 GMT
My sinuses would explode if I tried to use that.
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Post by Big Blue on Jul 19, 2017 21:16:54 GMT
Since this thread started I have had a lumbago attack. I changed trousers at work and somehow injured myself. I slept on a rigid bed the first night and managed to ride in the next. Then this morning (day 3) I went to the gym, did some light upper body work and cross training then sat in the Turkish baths for 45 minutes (including the terror of out of the sauna into the plunge pool) and the back was 80% there.
I blame the thread for my bad back by the way.
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