Bad Back

[Olly]

Had the same sort of thing happen a fair few times to me too...actually right now in a lot of pain.
Ok, solution
To relief the pain, drugs, maybe one of those heat patches, voltoron gel doesn't seem to do much, deep heat does.

Then........exercise.....walking, then walking with big swingy steps, then stairs two at a time...eventually freed up enough to go on a rowing machine.

In short space of time base of back is strong again, no pain etc. butttttttt...bad news is, once it happens once, next time it seems to happen more easily and so on....then you get to stage, without out exercise, and living a sedentary seated/laying lifestyle the pain always returns

..summary - rowing machine

[Andy2]

Buy a back support belt from boots. It keeps your back straight
It helped me a lot with the pain.

[NotAllThere]

Medical doses of Ibuprofen, that's 800mg 3x a day - do take with food. I find washing them down with half a bottle of a decent wine quite effective.

Get 6-12 sessions of physio. At the end, they should tell you some exercises to perform that will help prevent it happening again.

[Platypus]

Should go in a couple of days, aided by lots of hot baths and some of that gel for muscular aches stuff from the chemists.
To avoid in the future, do your stretching exercises before and after long coding sessions.

Bad advice - the type of injury determines whether you should use hot treatment or cold. Until that's determined, be careful.

[norrahe]

Bad advice - the type of injury determines whether you should use hot treatment or cold. Until that's determined, be careful.

Definitely WHS

Mr Norr has had back problems and his physio has recommended cold, not hot.

Consult an expert before you do some damage.

[sasguru]

Bad advice - the type of injury determines whether you should use hot treatment or cold. Until that's determined, be careful.

Oh! That's what I always do with mine. Can having a hot shower/bath really do any damage?

[norrahe]

Oh! That's what I always do with mine. Can having a hot shower/bath really do any damage?

It all depends on what you have done to your back, whether it's nerve, tissue, muscle, disc etc.....

So the application of cold or hot in the wrong situation could make things worse or cause injury.

[shaunbhoy]

Oh! That's what I always do with mine. Can having a hot shower/bath really do any damage?

You have showers sg? Blimey, thought you were that scrawny you had to run around to get wet!!

[RichardCranium]

Oh dear. What a lot of assumptions everyone has made.

Dear Furryfaced-One,

I'm sorry, but you've been mixing with a bunch of bipeds for too long and started thinking you're one of them.

Spend a night curled up in a pile of leaves, then a morning swinging in your tyre.

Once you are nicely relaxed, a couple of hours swinging between the branches with allow gravity to make the weight of your legs sort your back out.

Now I'm the king of the swingers
Oh, the jungle VIP
I've reached the top and had to stop
And that's what botherin' me
I wanna be a man, mancub
And stroll right into town
And be just like the other men
I'm tired of monkeyin' around!

Oh, oobee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna walk like you
Talk like you, too
You'll see it's true
An ape like me
Can learn to be human too.

You!
I wanna be like you
I wanna talk like you
Walk like you, too
You'll see it's true
Someone like me
Can learn to be
Like someone like me
Can learn to be
Like someone like you
Can learn to be
Like someone like me!

"Four legs good, two legs bad!"

[NickFitz]

Now I'm the king of the swingers
Oh, the jungle VIP
I've reached the top and had to stop
And that's what botherin' me
I wanna be a man, mancub
And stroll right into town
And be just like the other men
I'm tired of monkeyin' around!

I remember the first time I saw Disney's rendition of The Jungle Book: it was a Saturday afternoon in the Sixties when it first came out, when our Great Uncle George, of blessed memory, had accepted the burden of keeping myself and my siblings entertained while my parents did something or other

"Four legs good, two legs bad!"

I never got around to reading Animal Farm until I was in my late twenties

I knew and thought I understood all the cultural references thereto, but I hadn't actually read the book. As with all of Orwell's novels, I wept at the end - but in a good way