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Hi folks,
Lower back is a bit "shakey" and sore...(this is a recurring theme over many years)....I wonder if this is a result of any exercises in particular....? any thoughts ...? even taking pain killers (paracetemol) ....I'm just concerned that I might be causing grief with exercise to the hips and damaging back in the meantime....
Rachel
 
Rachel, I'd be surprised if you were doing any damage by exercising. Probably more like it is that your muscles are moving in different ways than they did before your surgery and your body is just getting used to what the "new normal" is now. When you start hurting, though, it is a sign to scale back a little. Don't be in too big a rush to get back to "normal."
 
Hi Rachel, Sorry to hear you are having a little trouble. I also have had a mildly achey back the past few days. I have not been troubled with back problems for many years. I am chalking it up to overdoing it in the garden and perhaps the ROM exercises I have been doing. I am planning to rest for a few days to see if it improves.
Hope your aches fade away soon!
Gail
 
Hi Rachel. Take it easy. Be good to yourself. Put your feet up, get some chocolate, that always works and relax.....I sure hope you feel better soon.................................
 
Hmmm, chocolate, a good concept but I'm afraid the vultures will descend!!!!....I hardly did anything yesterday, just to give the back a rest.....(except for a little on the Wii fit...) I'm struggling to get onto it as the kids think its for them!
Rachel
 
I have never suffered from back pain before, but since my op I have had the odd occasion where I have had some aching across my lower back, but only when walking, and only when going uphill !
I put it down to my back getting used to my legs now being the same length, and my pelvis now feels less twisted, so I guess that has some relevance too.

Treat yourself to a nice rest in the sun:thmb: , and push a little less on the stetching
Hope your pain eases soon Rachel

Regards
Andy
 
I'm seeing physio tomorrow so they may have some suggestions!....
Its not really bad but Im aware of it....
Rachel
 
Hi Rachel,

I know my lower back was achy for 6 weeks after surgery because I was only allowed to lay on my back, plus not being allowed break that 90-degree angle, it was impossible to do any back stretching exercises. I was elated at 6 weeks when the doc said I could start laying on the op side-------my back pain went away after that.

Hop
 
Perhaps your spine needs adjusting. Have you ever thought of seeing a chiropractor?
 
This is a timely thread. I just had a week of hell because my lower back raised it's ugly head so to speak. For years I have had my lower back under control and then wham it started acting up again. I barely made it to PT. Once there my PT worked on the back and explained why I was having problems. Seems I have been walking all wrong because of the hip. Now that I am "fixed" I am walking "normally" I was putting a strain on the muscles that were forced to work incorrectly all those years. After a week of PT on my back I am doing fine. I am even doing a low leg lift with caution.

Make sure to talk to you physio tomorrow. Best of luck and let us know how it goes.

Kathy
 
Josephine said:
Perhaps your spine needs adjusting. Have you ever thought of seeing a chiropractor?
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I had lower back problems too but they seem to have gone away. Now it's my upper back and right shoulder that are bothering me and won't go away. I thought of seeing a chiropractor but didn't know if that was safe (sometimes the positions they have to put you in to do the alignment are scary :shk:).
 
Well, they're highly trained (if you get the right one!) and aren't going to put you at risk - they have a career in the profession to think of, you know! I've been going to my chiropractor for almost 10 years. He cured my 'nurses' low back pain and regularly sorts out my fibrositis between my shoulder blades and manipulates my neck. Is startling at the time but feels great afterwards. And he's dealt with psoas spasm, all sorts of tension and spasm in the rear end and legs! I've recommended him to heaps of people and quite a lot of them actually went and then said how much better they were.

Question: if you've never actually beento a chiropractor, how do you know what 'the positions they put you in' are?
 
I have utilized a chiropractor quite a bit over the years. I guess I'm just being a nervous nell. The last time I went was just before I made the first appointment with my OS and didn't understand where all that pain was coming from. The chiro said my leg bone was melding into my hip socket, pulled on the leg (all the way to South America it seemed) and 'popped' it back in! I screamed bloody murder, it hurt so bad. Maybe that's why I'm nervous.
 
When my neck first started bothering me 2 years ago, i went to a chiropractor for a while. We got no where and it kept getting worse, he wanted me to have an MRI, then told me to talk to my spine doc, so then the first surgery. My spine surgeon had even told me it was OK to give chiropractic a try on my lower back. If you get a good one, they know when they can help and when you need more.

Rachel I hope your back is feeling better. I use a lot of ice on mine!!
judy
 
Quite so, Judy.

"A man's got to know his limitations!"

 
But did he fire 5 bullets or six?

I have seen a chiro for about 12 months or so. Actually he has kept me out of the surgeons hands. The relief I have had as a result of seeing him over the last year or so has been huge. I was always nervous about them because Physios had always told me not to go near a chiro, but a friend of mine is a chiro (as is her husband) and he convinced me just to give him a go....and I haven't looked back....I was really nervous too, but it was really unfounded.....
I'm not sure whether I should wait for the 6 weeks marks before I see him...?

The back has been a lot better today....pt didn't have much to say or much in the way of suggestions...she did offer some abdominal exercises in the realm of pelvic floor etc....
Rachel
 
My chiro cured my long standing low back pain - inheritance from a life-time's nursing! I refuse to be seen by anyone but him. He's the business.
 
kangaroo said:
Hi folks,
Lower back is a bit "shakey" and sore...(this is a recurring theme over many years)....I wonder if this is a result of any exercises in particular....? any thoughts ...? even taking pain killers (paracetemol) ....I'm just concerned that I might be causing grief with exercise to the hips and damaging back in the meantime....
Rachel
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lower back start 2 days after surgergy but 3 weeks in feeling better now
but i do have back trouble also
 
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