Posted on 06/26/2017 1:56:20 PM PDT by nikos1121
I have a VA disability for a back injury.
After a short time, I refused to take the drugs I was prescribed and instead, deal with the pain with naproxen and with my mind intact.
I strongly feel it is criminal, or darn near criminal for Dr.’s to be prescribing the crap they do because people think they can’t have any pain after too many simple procedures.
Crap, I had surgery on my hand, and refused the opioids the doctor wanted to prescribe.
I was mentioning that I was a little sore. He said "Exercise. Get off your butt. Walk. Run. Swim. That's why I do marathons for fun. Helps me to feel better."
Dammed if he wasn't right. I started exercising regularly. Nothing high impact, just walking, or working around the house. So long as I do it regularly.... works like a champ, I feel 100% better.
Now, every now and then my knees hurt, particularly when I walk too much, but I can deal with that.
It sounds good. What do you have your patients do? Preventive stuff is excellent, but what about the ones in pain already?
I injured my lower back when I was 18 planting a pecan tree for my grandma.
Don’t know what happened, but the next day I could not walk at all for 2 weeks. Ended up going to the sports doctor and got some percocets and muscle relaxers and anti inflammatory. That did make the pain go away.
However that injury continued to plague me from time to time for many years later. All of a sudden my back would just go out, and then I’d be in for some weeks of terrible pain. Best pill I ever found to take for it was magnesium salicylate.
When I was 43, it was the worst. Back hurt so bad I had to use an old person’s 4 legged walker to get out of bed. Terrible and humiliating.
So what finally fixed it was a Ma Roller, inline skating, an abdominal wheel for extensions and push ups.
Apparently my back was really weak from being a lazy bum, and so were my abdominal muscles. I had a bit of a bulging disk which the Ma Roller adjusted nicely. It was kind of hard to learn to skate with a bad back because of the position one must maintain to skate, but I endured.
I had also started to suffer from painful piriformis syndrome right before I started exercising too, and that also went away, thank God, because that really hurt.
So I think it’s safe to say that back pain can often times result from being too sedentary. Always exercise. Always.
However, there are some people who cannot exercise because of disability. So they are going to have to have another answer, I expect.
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i have back pain (stenosis) and there are a lot of quacks out there
I can testify to the effectiveness of physical therapy.
- my 2 cents
I wonder if there is a similar book about heart health and assorted “repairs”. If so, I need to read it now.
Walking is the best place to start.
Then stationary or real bicycle.
The best back exercise in the world is a 2 mile walk. Every day, no exceptions.
from personal experience and those around me, assuming the problem is simple soft tissue injury and nothing else, there’s no better treatment than expert acupuncture. Pretty much everything else is a waste of time.
As a 15 year sufferer of chronic pain resulting from bad back surgery, I can agree with almost everything in this article. Exercise is a great pain reliever, but as I get older, and walking has become more difficult, its very hard to maintain a regular exercise regimen. I hate that opioids have become so demonized, because they are my only source of pain relief now.
I have no idea what your heart problem is but I have prinzmetal angina. Was given nitro for when it happens since it’s not deadly but very painful. It got so bad I was having episodes 3-4 times a week. I have an auto immune disease I had been trying to find something for and had read that Serrapeptase was being used successfully for it. Serrapeptase didn’t help my auto immune disease but totally stopped the angina. Haven’t had an attack since I started taking it. When I googled Serrapeptase and angina I found out a lot of people are using it successfully for it. It is also supposed to clean the plaque out.
‘... “They have restyled themselves as rehabilitation specialists,” which means they’re training patients in effective back-strengthening exercises as a reliable physical therapist would, she tells Quartz, “and are doing a great job with it.” ‘
Do the simple, easy exercises that will prevent back pain and it’s return.
*** “I refused to take the drugs I was prescribed and instead, deal with the pain with naproxen and with my mind intact” ***
I too refuse drugs, they just make me stupid.
Wrong or right I Self Medicate w beer, it is a muscle relaxant and a pain killer (add an aspirin for more pain killer). I also stretch and warm up before I do chores (looks stupid but I was laid up for 3 months and do not want to go through that again)
So Far So Good
Bookmarking!!
Many thanks for posting this, Nikos!!
Stretching out my hamstrings helps me more than anything else to relieve lower back pain.
We are blessed with a chiropractic clinic that uses a functional movement screen to diagnose what causes the pain, then active release technology (plus pt, e-stim or whatever else is needed) to treat it.
My pain was enough that I would almost be blinking back tears while grocery shopping. I had just had my sixth baby and couldn’t continue like this. My parents have had three back surgeries between them and one is on OxyContin (and all the misery that follows) for life. I didn’t want to go down that typical path when seeing an MD.
The chiropractor could tell I was a former runner, accurately guessed the problems I had when I competed and stated why I had them and how they led to my current pain. It had been 18 years since my last race. Four visits and the pain was gone completely. He said I didn’t need an adjustment as my spine was fine. My pelvis was tipped forward-strong quads, weaker hamstrings. About twice a year I get a twinge and then do the stretches I’m supposed to do daily and it’s gone again.
Same chiropractic clinic helped my teen son when he injured his back in the weight room. Had him back on the wrestling mat within weeks.
I would never go to a chiropractic clinic that focuses on adjustments for treating all issues. The functional movement screen makes sense to me.
I had decompression surgery three years ago, and knock on wood, I am fine now. Prior to the surgery, I was in excruciating pain for months, needed a cane to get out of bed and could barely walk, let alone go to work. To wake up from the surgery feeling better than when I was wheeled into the operating room was a great blessing.
As someone once said, there is no greater feeling than sudden relief from great pain.
Walking is not enough for me. Make back would occasionally spasm if I sat twisted, without support. Too many years of slouching in chairs in front of a screen.
What made the difference was light racquet sports: Pickle ball.
Pickle ball is tennis with a whiffle ball. Faster than badminton, slower than tennis. That made a big difference and I play every other day.
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