Sore Back

[madasafish]

I'm pleased to say I seem to have done no lasting harm. Still a bit sore but got a lot of physical stuff done today. I'm humbled and suitably chastened and forewarned by some of the other stories and advice on this thread. Many thanks

But 24h later it was all gone and life was back to normal. This was all 5 years ago

I do wonder if I should find a physio and follow up the advice about exercises. I'll chat with my GP

Thanks all

Firefly.

Beware!

In my experience once you have a back problem, it's a warning that very likely it will happen again.

Some 25 years ago (!) i was staying in a hotel. Ran at 6.30am as normal, showered, dropped soap and picked it up, twisting at the same time. Back went for three days. Once it was better, I ignored it.

15 years later, occasional bouts of back pain culminating in sciatica..

When you get old (as in OAP) like me, you may regret not having taken exercise to sort it all out properly.

 

[Dishmop]

I broke my pelvis in three places in 1979...

Well, the hospital said it was two places but specialist found another one...
which is not suprising as the hospital took 4 hours to realise I had a collapsed lung..

Pain comes back with a vengeance in my hips sometimes, especially if I have been crawling around under car or motorhome..... I think its down to getting cold from the ground.

 

[REDWOOD]

Do what kids do BEND THE KNEES and not your back, as you get older your muscles deteriorate including your muscles that control your focusing , hence glasses at 40+ . Try and keep as fit as you can and remember carrying extra weight can put a strain on your back, walking strengthens back muscles and sitting with the right posture helps.
I do sympathise with sufferers as I had a twinge once, I bent down to stroke my cat that was on a lower step than me and my back went that lasted three weeks and was cured when I was late for work and rushing to get my socks on and my back went crunch and hey ho no pain.

 

[Dishmop]

I bent down to stroke my cat that was on a lower step than me

sneezed while holding a heavy box in the back of a truck.....had a hell of a job getting out.. next morning only just managed to get socks on..

and once when pulling handbrake on in van........had to get somebody to release handbrake so I could get home..

 

[peteinwilts]

I think we can all agree one shoe does not fit all, and different problems require different assistance.

Some are advised to go to chiropractors, whilst I was strongly advised not to for fear of paralysis. Don't listen to us... listen to the experts.

also, some doctors are better than others (don't stick with one). I was once diagnosed with 'the flu' and sinusitis, and as advised, went back every few weeks for stronger or different pills... The symptoms were bad enough, but it was genuinely tough as I regularly had to stop and sleep for 20 minutes on my way to work and at lunchtimes, even after sleeping 12-14 hours a night..

the doctor died 5 months later, so I saw another. After the new doctor asked me to give blood samples, my problem turned out to be chronic glandular fever. It was only lucky none of the pregnant women who I worked with were affected.

To be fair to the first doctor, it must be a dull job seeing the usual visits of elderly people queuing up for their weekly outing, and workshy after excuses not to work.

 

[Firefly]

We're all wimps. From a profile of Tony McCoy:

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Trouble started with a bad fall at Worcester in early October. “I punctured my lung, broke a couple of ribs and dislocated my collarbone,” McCoy says as he recites a bleak summary of damage. His fellow jockey Dougie Costello remembers McCoy walking back into the weighing room, talking about riding on while he had a drip in his hand. McCoy’s pale face looked ghostly as he asked for a cup of tea – with 10 sugars.


“Yeah, that was because I punctured my lung and couldn’t breathe. I obviously know the symptoms of a punctured lung. You know what it’s like not to be able to get a breath. I wouldn’t go to hospital because I knew a doctor would tell me I had punctured my lung and dislocated my collarbone and broke my ribs.


“I took a few days off and I kept saying to [my wife]: ‘I am getting better. I am.’ But Doc Pritchard made me go to the hospital because my lung was not great but when I got it inflated again I went back racing three or four days later at Huntingdon. I rode three winners that day. The pain was unbelievable but I went to Wetherby the next day and properly dislocated my collar bone. I had a week off but I went back riding way too early – at Exeter.”
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