Health Issues - Neck / Back

[SueEllen]

But don't go on the tube with it, as you'll annoy and inconvenience every one else!

There is a trick for carrying a rucksac on the tube and train so you don't bang into everyone.

The main thing is to take it off your back before you get on the tube/train and put it on the floor between your legs.

Though this doesn't work for massive backpacks.

However you still should have it in a position to take off your back on a crowded tube/train.

[suityou01]

<Serious Mode>

I'm getting a little concerned as I continue to work with computers. Over the last 3/4 years I've suffered more and more from a bad neck / shoulder caused by sitting at a computer.

To be fair, like a lot of us, I've been sat at a computer for 20 years ever since I got my first ZX Spectrum, hunched over the keyboard copying code from a magazine.

But my back is cracking, my neck hurts constantly. Initially it was laptops, then for the last few years I insist on a proper set up/HSE/screen/chair etc so I have the correct setup.

I've had physio, chiropracter, osteopath, acupuncture, massage, sauna. I've tried exercising, not exercising, stretching, weight lifting again, bit of cage fighting

Today at what point I was so low down in my chair due to pain I was practically slumped on the floor. I've been in pain constantly since Wednesday. At four I had to leave, my head was down, bent over like some hunchback, took an hour in a steaming hot bath to free the muscles up.

It's better when I don't work with computers, but that doesn't bode well.

Has anyone had this type of problem and then got it sorted, or am I destined to land up like Quasimodo?

FFS

[MarillionFan]

FFS

Oi fatty. Hope you've been cycling this week. Long run tomorrow.

[shaunbhoy]

Oi fatty. Hope you've been cycling this week. Long run tomorrow.

WMFS

I have been getting increasingly alarmed over your prospects on this L2B jaunt SY, if that portly figure in the retro Spurs shirt truly was you.
It is difficult not to get a rather macabre vision of you lying amidst the remains of your buckled bike, halfway up the South Downs. Gasping would be a serious underestimation of the situation. You would be sounding as if all your internal organs were about to rupture, like badly perished rubber bands. Wheezing and rattling like a consumptive beagle that had fallen off a tobacco Baron's treadmill, and with glazed unfocused eyes suggesting you may also be in the advanced stages of Myxomatosis!
Concerned onlookers, spying your portly frame, would be left to conclude that the only way you might have struggled that far along the course route could have been by falling out of a passing helicopter ambulance.
It really is not too late to reconsider this, in all seriousness.
Think of the children!!

HTH

[xoggoth]

I wonder if the hunched is a clue? Maybe you should look at your position. I have my monitors up high so I can sit upright and look straight ahead.

[xoggoth]

Does anyone know what SU looks like? For a suitable fee I could wait in a hedge near Ardingly and chuck a stick though his spokes.

[shaunbhoy]

Does anyone know what SU looks like?

Like Jabba the Hutt's arse.............if it had a pug's nose attached.

[MarillionFan]

Does anyone know what SU looks like? For a suitable fee I could wait in a hedge near Ardingly and chuck a stick though his spokes.

Bald, fat, out of shape, wearing a football shirt.

Oh no hang on, that's Shaunbhoy.

[shaunbhoy]

Bald, fat, out of shape, wearing a football shirt.

Oh no hang on, that's Shaunbhoy.

Hey?? I'm not bald...................

[gingerjedi]

I think so. I wouldn't accept a diagnosis from a GP, or treatment prescribed if it isn't working. Have a look at (aimed mostly at GPs, only viewable in England and Wales): Welcome to Map of Medicine for NHS Evidence

'Kinnell my GP earns £250k and all you need is a link to that site.

A superb find but I expect my anxiety will only get worse from now on.