Bad Back?

[Voltaire]

yeah. i don't sit on my arse all day. my job is my gym and my food is my medicine and my drugs are my hobby.

healthy as fuck yolo.

Thats right, you use your arse for talking out of

[jellywrestler]

all it took was some outside of the box thinking

there's a book called 'Thinking outside of the Box', it's not for bad backs, it's for recovering sex addicts though...

[pritch]

my job is my gym

You've got a job?

[nadroj]

Back in the early 1990's I met Precious McKenzie when we were building a gym at work. After changing jobs the boss was looking for someone to take a manual lifting course. I put him in touch with Precious who subsequently took the staff through correct techniques etc. He had an inversion table with him as he was selling them and after the boss refused buying one the social club bought one. We loaned it to staff members with great results & also hired it to joe public for social club funds.
Years later and in a different job I was talking inversion tables to an ex boss who said he had one a tenant had left behind and still hadn't collected after over a year that I could have for a slab. Now I have my own & swear by it. It is the ankle clamp type where Precious's model you hung from the knees.
The advice I can give with them is to twist gently, do semi situps etc to loosen the muscles around any injury while inverted but most importantly is to get up straight & gently when finished.
It simply works by taking gravity compression off of the spine, ( the gap between the top of your head & the ground can decrease up to 50mm while inverted ) & then let's it fit back together properly when getting up.
For muscular strains my recommendation is a "ten's" machine that used to be only available at the physio's but now available online.
eg http://www.trademe.co.nz/health-beau...1320348569.htm

[granstar]

I took bee venom pills (not for everyone, basically a natural anti-inflammatory) for a cervical issue, prescription ones were too hard on the gut, as well I did exercises from an exercise book titled 'Treat your own neck' by Robin McKenzie, yeah quakery but i've never looked back (oh wait, I can look back now).

Up to that point it appeared local GP's tend to throw something at it (pills,and shots), Physiotherapists give it a crack where its tender and exercises ( different to what I did from the book), and chiropractors headed to the root cause of the problem, in my case xrays told no can do with premature degeneration, bones out of whack causing out of whack muscles, a fuse being inevitable, so a look at alternatives and i'm good, ...so far. My point consider all options before doing anything drastic.

[Woodman]

I used to get terrible back issues in my early to mid 20s, tried chiropractor, physio, painkillers etc, didn't work. Then switched from playing blindside flanker to prop, played their for 15 odd years and haven't had a back ache since.

[oldrider]

I used to get terrible back issues in my early to mid 20s, tried chiropractor, physio, painkillers etc, didn't work. Then switched from playing blindside flanker to prop, played their for 15 odd years and haven't had a back ache since.

Well - you know what they say about tight forwards - don't you?

[HenryDorsetCase]

I took bee venom pills (not for everyone, basically a natural anti-inflammatory) for a cervical issue, prescription ones were too hard on the gut, as well I did exercises from an exercise book titled 'Treat your own neck' by Robin McKenzie, yeah quakery but i've never looked back (oh wait, I can look back now).

Up to that point it appeared local GP's tend to throw something at it (pills,and shots), Physiotherapists give it a crack where its tender and exercises ( different to what I did from the book), and chiropractors headed to the root cause of the problem, in my case xrays told no can do with premature degeneration, bones out of whack causing out of whack muscles, a fuse being inevitable, so a look at alternatives and i'm good, ...so far. My point consider all options before doing anything drastic.

Robin McKenzie is anything but a quack... just saying. That system of exercises based on range of motion and repetition is the basis of what most physio's use. Next time you're in have a look round and you might notice a McKenzie accredited sign. Certainly the one I use (Physio South) is.

[jellywrestler]

It simply works by taking gravity compression off of the spine,

that's no quite correct, sleeping or lying flat does that,
lets pick one joint between vertebrae and say while standing you have 50kilos of weight on it, when lying down zero, when hanging almost upside down it becomes about 50 kilos of traction so is doubly good for the joint, letting blood flow back in etc to revitalise the area.
one of the reasons we sleep is to let the spine relax

[roogazza]

Interesting read all this if you are a sufferer.
I went to the top man many years ago,Tregonning or a name close to that ?
He advised anti inflams and to lie flat for two weeks,getting up only to pee !!! It worked and I have used it ever since.
But the main culprit was Squash,I didn't come right until I stopped playing that game !

I sympathise with anyone who has back pain.

[haydes55]

Just borrow a couple grand from some Italian gangsters and don't pay it back. In 2 or 3 weeks 2 Guido thugs will escort you up a multi story building and hang you by your ankles over the edge.

[WNJ]

Just borrow a couple grand from some Italian gangsters and don't pay it back. In 2 or 3 weeks 2 Guido thugs will escort you up a multi story building and hang you by your ankles over the edge.

The local natives will do it for a hundy "bag o P "

[tri boy]

I can't believe that my encounter with Spyda would be a life changer

Many AA meetings and Deveants have murmered those words.
(Usually in the fetal position)

[granstar]

Robin McKenzie is anything but a quack... just saying. That system of exercises based on range of motion and repetition is the basis of what most physio's use. Next time you're in have a look round and you might notice a McKenzie accredited sign. Certainly the one I use (Physio South) is.

Agree, I was referring to myself being a self quack, and I do have duck's disease to prove it.

Robin (yes folks a pro therapist with a lot of credentials in the field) put out another book ' The Lumbar Spine" , may be of help to someone if you can find a copy.

Was in this morning and had a look around, all I noticed was a spider web in the corner of the room

[Crasherfromwayback]

Cheers for the heads up. My back is fucked and I've had bad sciatic pain for years. I see a good Osteo once a month, and he makes it bearable...but I'll give one of these fangdangled contraptions a go!