Bad Back

[Wilmslow]

Slipped disc isn't the only possible back injury.

Indeed. I have a bad muscle that is aggravated by the back joints.

If I do nothing it literally siezes. If I overdo the gym, it can aggravate it.

Mind you, I overdid the gym this weekend:

Saturday:
Pilates
Body Pump
Spin class

Sunday:
Body Attack
Body Pump

Tonight I am planning another Body Attack, maybe Body Pump as well. I am a gym addict these days - down to 31" and losing more....... (was 38" a couple of years back!)

[TimberWolf]

You don't need to do anything.

WHS

[Mich the Tester]

Indeed. I have a bad muscle that is aggravated by the back joints.

If I do nothing it literally siezes. If I overdo the gym, it can aggravate it.

Mind you, I overdid the gym this weekend:

Saturday:
Pilates
Body Pump
Spin class

Sunday:
Body Attack
Body Pump

Tonight I am planning another Body Attack, maybe Body Pump as well. I am a gym addict these days - down to 31" and losing more....... (was 38" a couple of years back!)

I’d advise you to have a rest day or do a light Pilates session. I could give you a long explanation to do with training stimuli and overcompensation, but believe me, your body needs sleep and food and rest to get the benefits. I’ve been a serious sportsman since I was a child, and even when I was a semi-professional rugby player I never did three consecutive days of hard training; you just don’t benefit from it and you end up too knackered to train properly.

If you want to train a lot then you should really ask a qualified instructor to help you set up a longer term programme.

[vetran]

Hot bath, ibuprofen and reduce strenous exercise few a few days. Walk not fight. Swimming is great. If still bad in a week then see a professional.

[TimberWolf]

Hot bath, ibuprofen and reduce strenous exercise few a few days. Walk not fight. Swimming is great. If still bad in a week then see a professional.

And what can a professional do for a bad back aside from prescribing a sick note and possibly damaging your health record if you ever want to sign up for private medicine? About as much as a Witch Doctor, which is a considerable amount for many people.

[Mich the Tester]

And what can a professional do for a bad back aside from prescribing a sick note and possibly damaging your health record if you ever want to sign up for private medicine? About as much as a Witch Doctor, which is a considerable amount for many people.

Not necessarily. If chef has an acute injury, for instance bone damage or a torn muscle, an orthopedic surgeon can perhaps operate or prescribe the right kind of therapy. However, the first possibility to eliminate is that chef is just tired after doing something he’s not accustomed to doing, so for the first few days they probably wouldn’t do anything unless there’s something obvious like a major bruise, a new deformity or a cut.

[chef]

It was caused by a combination of

- lugging 2 solid oak benches (and I mean solid oak not these MDF with oak veneer fakes) up 3 floors, old bulding therefore no lift
- 60kg of cat litter gravel stuff, there's only 2 cats and no they don't carp that much it's just gf chef going mad and bulk buying for a piddly discount and turning up after shopping with a "p p pleeease help" look

thanks for the diet tip, that's a sure fire way to guarantee no more for a while..

[Spacecadet]

take a little bit of oak, and a grain of cat litter
Mix with water and shake it
Mix that with more water and shake it
mix that mixture with even more water and shake it some more
then do the previous 3 steps again.

send me a cheque for £500

then place 3 drops of the solution on your back

If that doesn't work then nothing will

[Mich the Tester]

It was caused by a combination of

- lugging 2 solid oak benches (and I mean solid oak not these MDF with oak veneer fakes) up 3 floors, old bulding therefore no lift
- 60kg of cat litter gravel stuff, there's only 2 cats and no they don't carp that much it's just gf chef going mad and bulk buying for a piddly discount and turning up after shopping with a "p p pleeease help" look

thanks for the diet tip, that's a sure fire way to guarantee no more for a while..

If you didn’t feel any sudden pain while lugging stuff about and you didn’t try to lift something you’re not capable of lifting then it’s probably just fatigue and perhaps slightly pulled muscles. Take it easy for a few days; if it’s DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) it might be worse tomorrow and then start to subside. Same still goes; rest for a while by lying on your back on a hard surface and perhaps have a bath, but it’ll take a few days. If you’re still having trouble after 3 to 4 days, or if there’s one particular point (not a large area) where there’s a lot of pain then see a doc.

If you’ve been lifting stuff off the ground then you’ve probably used the trapezius and teres major and teres minor muscles; these muscles are high up in the back, among other movements they pull the shoulders backwards and upwards or hold them steady and are not often trained by people who don’t row, climb or lift weights, so they’re vulnerable to fatigue in lifting motions.

You might also feel pain because of intervertebral discs being slightly compressed by the weight; again, if the pain came on slowly as opposed to a sudden pain then it’s probably fatigue and should go away.

Are your arms tired too?

[Ardesco]

All being well time and ibuprofen will sort things out, but well worth getting a once over from a physio.

I would disagree, my experiance with physio's is that the majority of them give you exercises that teach you how to live with the problem, rather than fixing it (e.g. if you know something out of place they will give you exercises to build up your muscles so that you can get up and about again rather than knockign that something back into place). IMHO it is better to see a back professional to get the root cause of the problem fixed first, and then go see the physio to get the exercises to get you up and running again.