My poor back

[Garyshome]

Try some back stretches. Small effort goes a long way. Look them up online.

[abunaitoo]

It's almost back to 100%.
I'll take it easy for another week and hope to be back to 100%.

[abunaitoo]

Helped my friend again today.
Back did fine.
I guess I'm healed up.

[Mr_Sheesh]

Great!

[robg]

did the same .muscle problem saw physio she told me to lie on the floor and do a push up with my hips on floor to arch my back the other way .worked a treat, if it starts up again i do the exercise and the pain goes away.

[Rizzo]

I am surprised that no one mentioned going to a chiropractor.

I go to one when my back goes out and pretty much have instant relief afterwards.
There is still some residual "feeling" from the inflammation that was present but moving around after the treatment I can tell things are back in alignment.
Perhaps give it a try next time.

[Spooksar]

September 2019 a guy at work dropped a box on my head. I was a little angry finished up what I was doing and went on break. Went to stand up after the break and something felt off. Found a manager and told them what happened and had to start filling out paperwork. There is a 800 nursing number the company has so I had to call them and give them all the details. I was going to try and finish up my shift and call it a day. The nurse hotline was like nope you are going to the hospital.

I went to the ER (in a company provided cab), they stuck a neck brace on me and started doing xrays. The xrays showed something and they sent me for a ct scan. I was sitting in the room waiting and a doctor came in and asks me if I had been in a car accident recently. He said I had a fractured T5 and T6 and the disks between 5 and 6, 6 and 7, and 9 and 10 were ruptured. They finally set me up with a follow up appointment and I was able to go home.

A few days later I went to the spinal surgeon. He was an uppity holier than though dr who works for the sabres and bills. He came in the room in his $5000 suit looked at me and said there was nothing wrong maybe try PT. I went for a second opinion and he said I would need surgery. In the meantime workers comp made me go through 16 weeks of PT. I had the first back surgery in August 2020. The put cages in and that didn't work at all.

January 2021 I went in for the second back surgery. This one sucked but they cut out some of the disk and I have this huge mass of metal holding things on place now. I'm back to going to PT, but after the last surgery I have numbness in my arm and have lost a ton of strength in it. The best part is I still hurt as bad as I did on the day of the accident.

So how long will your back hurt? Who knows. I just know I wish I would have skipped the surgery and just dealt with it, cause every time they touch me something new pops up.

About that uppity doctor remember 50% of doctors graduate at the bottom of thier class,they all get paid the same when they start and this causes a real attitude in some. They should get paid on thier ability

[abunaitoo]

Never want to have any surgery on the back.
Mom did, and it didn't get better.
Thing with back surgery, once it done, you can't go back.
Guy I know insist on going only to chinese doctors.
To me they just want to take his money.
Keep on doing test, after test, after test, with no answers.
Last I heard they want to do some surgery on his brain.
Even his chinese eye doctor, who he's been going to for years, messed him up.
Eye so bad now, nothing can be done.
Doc told him me waited to long.
Sees the quack once a year.
This guy is a mess anyway.
Try to stay away from him, and the family.
They all turned out to be users.
Side note............
Doc made me take a blood test.
Everything is a little better that last time.
I must be doing something right.
If I could only figure what it is.