lower back /sciatica pain
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As always, this is "barroom advice" coming from my experience. And I'll be as brief as my friends were with me so don't be offended.
Exercise has been mentioned several times. Big old fat belly? Lose a lot of it, PERIOD.
Strengthen your core with yoga. I don't care if you're a "tough guy" and you think yoga is for girls. It's foolish to think that.
This is not to discount any other approach or the involvement of professionals.
Not everyone is able to run off to one or more doctors and therapists so the above IS the best place for MANY to start. Get real.
We all accept the fact that BITOGers are superior beings but, statistically speaking, some of us have to be fat wads.....comes with our lifestyle.
How many bad backs can be remedied with strengthening the front (tummy) and back of your back-expressed as a percentage? LOTS OF THEM.
The yoga will also address the SIDES of your spine too.
Exercise has been mentioned several times. Big old fat belly? Lose a lot of it, PERIOD.
Strengthen your core with yoga. I don't care if you're a "tough guy" and you think yoga is for girls. It's foolish to think that.
This is not to discount any other approach or the involvement of professionals.
Not everyone is able to run off to one or more doctors and therapists so the above IS the best place for MANY to start. Get real.
We all accept the fact that BITOGers are superior beings but, statistically speaking, some of us have to be fat wads.....comes with our lifestyle.
How many bad backs can be remedied with strengthening the front (tummy) and back of your back-expressed as a percentage? LOTS OF THEM.
The yoga will also address the SIDES of your spine too.
Think prevention. I'm retired and have been dealing with lower back pain for the past 8-9 years. Flare-ups occur when I do rehab work on daughter's house, spend 90 minutes cutting the grass, moving ladders, crawling under car to change the oil, etc. What really made a difference for me this past year was getting in the habit of wearing an inexpensive, flexible back-brace belt when doing physical work. Keeps the lower spine aligned ... although they are a little hot to wear in summer. Several of these available on ebay ... search for "double elastic support flexible back belt."
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thanks for all the reply guys. i am 5-9 165 # so i would not consider myself overweight, but being Asian i could lose maybe 10 # . So it seems the excercise is the way to go for now. i don;t really want surgery and no funny pills for me.
i am just frustrated that it can't walk and go anywhere without pain. 12 weeks of being at home will drive me crazy. i am going to check out a chiro and massuses and see if that helps.
i am just frustrated that it can't walk and go anywhere without pain. 12 weeks of being at home will drive me crazy. i am going to check out a chiro and massuses and see if that helps.
Have lower back pain since the 1990s and it comes and goes. My Chiropractor adjusts my back and it goes away for about a year. He says it's from a pinch nerve (sciatica) in my hips so the adjustment helps. At worse case, pain shoots up my back and crosses over to the other side and down my leg.
I have had lower back issues and sciatica since the 80s...comes and goes. I find that it's VITAL to drive a car with a comfy seat or I'm miserable all day. I also have some issues with osteoarthritis, and when I'm having a bad day/night I might take a Percocet and a couple of shots of Reyka vodka and that takes the edge off enough that I can sleep.
I walk 10,000+ steps a day, more like 20k if I'm home all day with the dogs. Could probably stand to lose 50 lbs, but probably never will.
I have never seen a chiropractor, and likely never will. My grandfather believed strongly in chiropractic, and even went to his chiro for what turned out to be an enlarged prostrate. He couldn't urinate and wound up in the hospital after the "adjustment" didn't take care of things. My remember my dad referring to chiropractors as "witch doctors" when I was a kid, and that negative impression has stuck with me since.
I walk 10,000+ steps a day, more like 20k if I'm home all day with the dogs. Could probably stand to lose 50 lbs, but probably never will.
I have never seen a chiropractor, and likely never will. My grandfather believed strongly in chiropractic, and even went to his chiro for what turned out to be an enlarged prostrate. He couldn't urinate and wound up in the hospital after the "adjustment" didn't take care of things. My remember my dad referring to chiropractors as "witch doctors" when I was a kid, and that negative impression has stuck with me since.
Good to hear you're on the mend. Don't lift people anymore.
I know that pain all too well. Injuries sustained during a blast in Afghanistan ended my military career and left with back and sciatic pain the rest of my life. I have scoliosis, stenosis, and easily get herniated discs at L3-L4 and L4-L5. For me, an inversion table does wonders. The VA won't give me anything more than ibuprofen because they're worried about addiction. I could have surgery to attempt to correct it, but there's no guarantee it'll work. Even if it does, it'll just move the problem further up my back.
I feel your struggle, I had sciatica and Si joint problems which caused so much trouble with my back and just doing simple tasks everyday were a pain in the [censored]. Before you take pills or have any surgery I would suggest you check this out first! I started stretching and strengthening my hip flexors and my core and my backpain is almost entirely gone. Check this link I hope this helps because it did for me big time!!! The video expains a great stretch!
https://healthandbuffness.lpages.co/hip-flexors/
https://healthandbuffness.lpages.co/hip-flexors/
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