Sounds like OP is a poser. We all have strong backs from a lifetime of carrying around our OG hogs. It’s the OG’s version of “farmer’s strength”.
If OP’s back hurts, maybe he’s been faking he’s one of us.
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I had a bad lower back right out of high school, just lifting heavy every day in first job, 3 workers comp claims (all lower back) in 1.5 years. Bothered me off and on for couple years till i started doing heavy deadlifts (i was lifting before but not deadlifting), then just never really came back.
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This thread is going to have 10000 posts if the OG has retained any honesty.
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There are some go.to things that people never try.
I use a heat pack. A plug in one from CVS, cheap 2x2 square plug in blanket.
Heat overnight is always good. It loosens up the muscle.
Chiropractor at a good sports place helped me. I got through a few marathons w a back in spazm. Sucks.
I’m too skinny now. I’m actually missing spine tissue there, found out I’m missing spine facets down low (weird congenital thing found mid life), Heat keep it loose.
I don’t like running for backs though. Running isn’t the most dynamic flexible sport.
Grits- you might be in some spazm. Make like 4-5 outpatient chiro visits, they help. And heat on your own.
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Running is horrible for lower back pain.
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Agree Kind of feel like it’s worse than any other sport I did. Not sure why.
Flexeril is horrible. Will help your back loosen but takes you off the planet for a while. Not good, I won’t take anymore.
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What did you do to get strong?
Checking in. Mine is fucking awful.
Has hurt horribly since I was about 13. The good part is I’ve developed an incredible pain tolerance through it.
I have a severely deformed L2. My low back has always hurt. People would yell at me to sit up straight, which always made it worse. Only at 29 when I went to doctor was the badly deformed vertebrae found. Apparently I adapted remarkably well by doing a ton of farm work when I was young, so my back stayed strong and mobile enough.
Doctors now tell me to never ever sit up straight lol. My L2 shoots back 2 cm in retrolisthesis and mashes my spinal chord.
My knees suck from the bad posture. My cervical spine as well. Also the nerve compression made right leg shrink, it’s always about 1.5 inches smaller at the quad and calf.
I do a fair amount of stretching. Nothing fixes it it but it feels nice.
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I used to have a lower back issue I fixed by having a major wipeout on my wakeboard.
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Strengthening your core, glutes will help and a wonderful stretch/ mobility exercise known as the cobra works wonders.
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Two herniated discs. Alternating days lifting and BJJ when i was a younger man fucked me up. But like any young man, i pushed through the obvious injury for no good reason other than ego amd hubris.
Now in my mid 40s I feel it. All.the.time.
Everyone told me that id feel it when im older. They were right.
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I’ve dealt with a bad back on and off my entire adult life. The times it was best was when I attacked it. If I hurt it and rested, it would make it worse. I’m not talking good morning or anything crazy but Superman’s are great. Start with short sets, 60 secs or 30 if you can’t do 60. Work up to 5 mins.
Look into strengthening and stretching your hips and psoas. And quads. My quads get tight as fuck and kill my back. When I’m stretching neurotically like David goggins my back is also at its best
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My back has only been fucking up since about last October.
Pain shooting down my left leg into my foot and big toe.
My foot is almost always numb and my toes feel cold to me but are still warm to the touch. I have to sleep on my right side, but during the night, I’ll roll to my back and the pain wakes me up, rinse& repeat. I do that multiple times a night.
My biggest issue with all this is the pain in my lower leg. Not the calf muscle, but the left side of my left leg. Feels like someone’s running a hot knife through that area.
Recently had an MRI with multiple bulging dicks but nothing that just jumped out at the Dr.
Going to 1st try epidural injections, see if i get any relief.
I’ve been taking gabapentin and Meloxicam daily.
That seems to help some.
Who here has done the epidurals and did they help?
Edit-shit, I started to fix my typo, but figured I’d leave it.
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My L2/L3 were smashed in a climbing incident that also caused the disc between to splooge all its internals out. 25 years ago.
I was unable to walk for 6 weeks. I had no money or insurance at the time. Had to wait for the state to approve me for a program to get aide.
The (covered non surgical) fix was to realign me and then wear a full torso brace for 12 weeks. The two wrecked vertebrae fused themselves together. It came out unexpectedly perfect. I was back doing everything within a year.
25 years now and I never notice it. But I have stayed lean and reasonably strong.
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My back has been an issue since before the turn of the millennium. Yoga, stretching and strengthening of the core are the only things that keep it at bay. It hurts every morning just to remind me of how retarded I was when I was younger. Should have let things heal instead of pushing through.
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35 years in same industry /
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44, fucked since i was 20 and ruptured a disc. Ive had 6 or 7 surgeries. Discectomy, fusion, spinal cord stimulator install. Tons of nerve burns and injections, countless rounds of PT.
My MRI report is 2 pages long to list all the shit wrong.
Sucks balls.
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Had a million epidurals, never once helped the sciatic pain youre experiencing. A spinal cord stimulator would help. One or more of those bulging discs is pressing against your sciatic nerve. Sometimes you can ride it out and your body will take care of it. Sometimes you gotta get that herniated section of disc cut out to get the pressure off the sciatic nerve.
Good luck.
If youre interested in the spinal cord stimulator, ask doc for a referral to a pain management doc. You can do a trial where they install a temporary one for a week. Then if it helps, they will install a permanent one like i have, battery pack under your skin. Bluetooth controlled by my phone. Works great for sciatic pain down my legs.
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I’ve had scoliosis since I was a kid.
Completely forgot about it.
Then about 5 years ago, I noticed all sorts of problems. Aches, pains, limited motion, etc.
Went into a chiropractor, got full xrays and he showed me 3 massive curves in my spine.
And that explained why I’ve always preferred my anvil to sit much higher than other people.
FUN!
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