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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: lupinus on February 06, 2020, 04:59:01 PM
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Today, I think I officially progressed in the aging process.
I have thrown my back out...by sneezing wrong. I wasn't even aware that was possible.
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Today, I think I officially progressed in the aging process.
I have thrown my back out...by sneezing wrong. I wasn't even aware that was possible.
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I have a fractured vertebra in my lumbar region because of something very similar.
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I just turned 52 so I'm taking notes on what to expect.
Brad
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I just turned 52 so I'm taking notes on what to expect.
Brad
....I'm 34
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Today, I think I officially progressed in the aging process.
I have thrown my back out...by sneezing wrong. I wasn't even aware that was possible.
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:rofl: :rofl:
Getting old has just begun to suck.
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Getting old sure ain't for wimps.
I hate to admit it, but I've pulled muscles in my back just getting out of bed. ;/
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Today, I think I officially progressed in the aging process.
I have thrown my back out...by sneezing wrong. I wasn't even aware that was possible.
I can attest, on the basis of first-hand experience, that it is VERY possible.
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If you're not on a first name basis of a decent chiropractor, might be time to find one.
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Today, I think I officially progressed in the aging process.
I have thrown my back out...by sneezing wrong. I wasn't even aware that was possible.
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I did that in my 20s. But I've got a crappy back.
A few weeks ago I pulled a muscle in my upper back tossing around bags of pellets for my stove. Got so bad that I had to go to urgent care for muscle relaxers and pain killers. Couldn't sleep, couldn't get comfortable at all.
It's still not gone away, and a few days I dicked it up again... by coughing.
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I blew out a sciatic disc 3 or 4 years ago taking a 8" hop off a step.
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Well today's progress, at least thus far, I can stand up straight again....after a minute or two of stretching into said upright position and cussing.
Grow up they said. It'll be fun they said. Lying bastards.
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Getting old is definitely a young man's game.
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I've never pulled a back muscle from sneezing, but holy hell, one of the most excruciating things I experience if I have a pulled back muscle is sneezing while driving. I think because I can't prep my body for it because I can't really shift position without creating a safety hazard. Hate it when that happens.
For Lupinus, I will do my usual plug for yoga. Never to early to start my friend, and the entire reason I started was due to chronic back pain from being a 6'3" guy stuck in small aircraft cockpits. Results are fast, and as long as you do even 5-10 minutes every day, you're giving yourself "back insurance".
It's no guarantee against doing something stupid - I do something stupid at least once or twice a year. However, with yoga and a couple of doses of Aleve, I'm at 100% in a day or two instead of a week.
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Welcome to the club of aging ailments. Despite being in good shape, and lifting heavy things in the gym regularly, I tweaked my neck last night through the simple act of rolling over.
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I did the same thing at about the same age myself, you're in august company. ;/
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With some lingering stiffness in the area and nagging from a friend I broke down and went to a chiropractor yesterday for the first time.
It was actually quite pleasant, though I'm not sure if the chiropractor being impressed by the sounds my neck made is a good or a bad thing.
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Consider accupuncture, as well.
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With some lingering stiffness in the area and nagging from a friend I broke down and went to a chiropractor yesterday for the first time.
It was actually quite pleasant, though I'm not sure if the chiropractor being impressed by the sounds my neck made is a good or a bad thing.
That's a good thing.
I'm currently being treated by the chiropractic department at the VA hospital (yes, many VA hospitals offer chiropractic). They practice a new, kinder, gentler form of chiropractic, that to me seems more like therapeutic massage than chiropractic. It's relaxing and pleasant ... and basically ineffective. I had a session yesterday and I briefly discussed this with the attending chiropractic doc. But -- he's a professor at the nearby school from which they draw the chiropractic residents, so his position is that the old-school (what I call "real") chiropractic is out-dated and that actual manipulation/adjustment is unnecessary. That means (as he explained it) that the reason I'm not better after several treatments is that I'm getting old, not because their treatments don't work.