How many here have back problems
 

I have 2 erniated disk in lower back. 6 years ago it was real bad then it started to get real better when I moved to Curacao in the Carribeans. After a year in Winnipeg and the start of the canadian winters it's starting again.

I have lost some weight so that helps but I still feel it when I got to bed at night and it bothers me.

I got a CAT scan done and waiting on the doctor to send it to me in meantime is there any tips, tricks or excersise anyone here can suggest :Oh crap

i need to get a better chair before i start developing problems too.

try not to be in the doggystyle receiving position for 2 long

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Lets just say my back is screwed.

Only tips I can give is to develop a high pain tolerance.

I feel for you man. I used to get em' when I played alot of golf but don't do that as much these days. Moving to Vegas (from Minnesota) helped too.

I just bought a chair + a new dr. scholls back rest you add to the chair. Feels good and hope it will help.

My problem is due to a moving incident that happen to me 8 years ago when I crushed my spin :mad:

i tend to pinch my sciatic nerve about once/twice a year

http://www.spine-health.com/topics/c...c_nerve01.html

Yeah and Sleazy is a pretty big and Strong man so that might not have helped either.

Miss you to My New York Gigolo :winkwink:

serious note though... there some new machines that do some sort of stretching and shit... i saw a paphlet onit at my chiroprators office... it a huge machine and such...

My back is fucked. Sometimes the slightest of even normal movement will put me in bed for a day or two. Just last week I strained it sneezing.

dont have any problems here...yet :\

L4 - L5 S1 Surgery and now after that is good and 3 years later right side is shot ... and I still play paintball full time tournament wise

My back is usually very good, but today (first day in years) I have shitmuch pain... Been working a lot psysically lately!

Around 99 I severely injured my cartlidge in my lower back. I was working for a Tree trimming sign repair company and was throwing a huge log that weighed almost as much as I did at the time into the back of a dump truck. I felt a pop, and was in a bean bag chair for almost 2 weeks. It was the only thing that made me comfortable.

Pain was really bad on and off, and my legs and sometimes arm would go numb. Ive worked in auto parts on and off since 91 and that was the worse thing. Standing on hard floors all day. I finally took 2 years off just running my game server business I had and working from a laptop while lying on the couch. I had a few months of therapy which never really helped. Had to use a tense unit even for a quite a while, as the muscles would freeze up real bad. It eventually felt alot better. About 7 months ago I started going to a deep tissue massage therapist and she really helped alot. My posture even improved.

Im really amazed my back came back to as good as it used to be, I was afraid of having constant backpain for life. So far I've been doing great *knocks on wood*

had 3 discs fused last year. best thing i ever did. I was in a fucking lot of constant pain before that and now i have a normal life. Rollerbladed for an hour today. drove for 6 hours yesterday(in brazil). I had a hard time sitting for a full dinner and would lay down to eat at home to just avoid the issue. My doctor kept telling me to wait until I could not stand it. Dumb advice as the surgery rocks.

i took the corner an overflowing trash dumpster to the abdomen.....pinned me against the trash enclosure wall....sat there passing out for a couple hours finally busted out with some super adrenaline and pushed it off........love the look on the doc's faces when i explained to them what happened.....ended up with a few herniated disks one bad surgery and one good....i feel your pain on the laying down tip.....tis the least comfortable for me as well...........

hmmm not too sure about herniated discs but try to keep the back in alignment. Pllow under you knees when you sleep.
Stretch probably have to loose some more weight, keep your stomach muscles strong so they keep the back in line.

Basically thats what the doctor told me for my back, I have thrown it out a couple times. Take some advil to keep the swelling down in your discs, that is usually what causes the pain.

Hopefully by taking care of your body over time you can heal it and not have to get surgery.

I always have and had. From youth when i was doing figure skating.

Yes it's called Spinal Decompression. I will be looking into this with my neurologist. My partner on InkedNation, the guy that programmed the backend had it done and he said it did wonders

acupuncture relieved my shooting pains and numbness.

My cairopractor has to align it everytime..

"alot of physical therapists put too much emphasis on stomach muscles and neglect the actual muscles in the back"........dr. james cannon (my specialist)

I have something wrong with my back, but not sure what. A couple years ago I was working a spot at a wrestling show where one of the other wrestlers was supposed to hit me, and I was supposed to bump to the table in front of the ring. Comes time to do the spot, he hits me, and I bump....then I come back up and the mother fucker has a fire extinguisher. Nails me with it, I fly over the table and bump on the concrete.

Back hurt like hell for a few days, then I thought it got better. Now, for about the last year or so, whenever I try to bend over I lose all feeling in my legs at a certain point, and then as I bend farther, it shoot pains down my legs.

Do a search for a book by John Sarno. It's a great read on back pain.


Here ya go: http://www.healingbackpain.com/

Yeah I am thinking about that. Thing is I just moved to Montreal Quebec so now I got to change medicare system. And the Quebec one is pretty fucked up.

My exact problem. i had 2 nice chairs but left them at the office when I rented it out, kind of like a turn key office. the rent is good, my back is not!

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A great back massage every week will do.

I got a bone spur in my ankle it makes for lotsa pain walking :disgust

I make little breaks and go to lie on a sofa. That helps.

The only thing I know trhat helps besides weed
is to use ice everyday on the effected spots helps keep down the infalmation (sp)
also do lots of stretching exercises
this what my dctor told me to do
ended up going to physio to learn all the exercises.
helped a little bit

I get them frequently and it still doesn't help as much as I would hope.

I grew too fast when I was younger and my left side is longer than my right. It's retarded and I use to go to PT for it, but that wasn't much help either.

Partially is my fault due to my posture, sitting in a computer chair all day and my lack of stretching/flexibility.

I do have back pain and it hurts every time I sit too long on my chair while working:(

Surgery here, L4-L5 Discectomy with a L5-S1 fusion, a little over a year and a half ago now, I can honestly say that it was the best thing for me, the one thing that I learned through out of all of it, is that there are a lot of shady doctors out there that will cut you up and not think twice about, best advice if you need surgery, go and get multiple opinions, I think I ended up seeing about 5 orthopedic surgeons and one neuro-surgeon, and weighed all that they each had to say and then on top of that, chose my doctor from the bunch

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yeah shopping for a good deep tissue masseuse in my area, will probably og on Friday

That happens to one of my employees too...hurts a bunch apparently.

After carrying both of my daughters around disney, and seaworld all week I thought my back hurt. I can't even imagine how bad it must be for you..

I can't offer any tips, except maybe a nice jacuzzi soakin' Hope you get it fixed up soon.

My backs fine but my knees get blown out easy cuz I'm sitting on my duff all day.

My back is fucked up, and I'm just 18...oh the drama :P

I used to get pretty regular intense spasms but have been pretty good the past few years. found having a good chair has helped a lot, and work on keeping my posture as good as I can.

I discovered this by accident or desparation.
After suffering severe back strain from more or less laying in my chair when I became tired after 5 or 6 hrs. I would slump down and it left my lower back unsupported. It finally gave out.

After about 2 weeks of getting back to a good sitting posture and visiting the Chiropractor twice a week I was doing OK but sitting for more than a few minutes was just painful. Standing up was the only comfortable position I could get into.

Tried laying on my stomach on the bed or the floor to use the computer which did not work either but was reasonably comfortable but not totally.


I had bought a HoMedics Thera P Magnetic Back Support belt to apply ice and heat and seeemed to be reasonably comfortable but I always took it off after the heat and ice was done. But by wearing the belt all the time it solved my sitting pain problem. Doesn't have to be really tight just snug it up while standing then sit down.