Back pain

[LaMexicana]

Anyone suffer from lower back pain? I straight my back while weightlifting and playing volleyball back in February. I went to the chiro for a few weeks and towards the end he was hurting me a lot more so I stopped. I finally went to an orthopaedic and he put me on Celebrex to calm the inflamation. I went through and Xray and MRI and when I went back to get the results and the ortho never gave me a straight answer. The Celebrex did help some (but it made my hair super oily...ew...) but I decided to just use Aleve when I was have a bad pain day.

So my question is...does pain ever go away? Will I ever go back to feeling normal? I still play and lift (unfortunately not as heavy) but will I ever have a comfortable day ever again?

 

[stovebolts]

I love Celebrex, but it has some pretty negative heart risks tied to it with extended use...
Anyway, most of the time when I get lower back pain, it's because my core isn't strong enough to support my back. Try working your core harder.

Last time I had severe back issues, I went in for a deep tissue massage with a gal who understood the appropriate touch points. Honestly, the massage hurt.. really bad. But in an odd way, the back pain was diminished. The next day my back felt 70% better and by three days I was @ 100%. Mind you, I had suffered back pain to the point where it hurt to get out of my chair for almost 3 weeks before I saw the therapist.

Good luck!

 

[Tina]

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Were you involved in yoga ? ...

I too suffered from severe back pain before, that I could not even sit and work on my computer. But I'm completely healed ... solely through the healing power of Christ ! .... no therapy or medication at all ...

 

[LaMexicana]

I love Celebrex, but it has some pretty negative heart risks tied to it with extended use...
Anyway, most of the time when I get lower back pain, it's because my core isn't strong enough to support my back. Try working your core harder.

Last time I had severe back issues, I went in for a deep tissue massage with a gal who understood the appropriate touch points. Honestly, the massage hurt.. really bad. But in an odd way, the back pain was diminished. The next day my back felt 70% better and by three days I was @ 100%. Mind you, I had suffered back pain to the point where it hurt to get out of my chair for almost 3 weeks before I saw the therapist.

Good luck!

I was actually just talking to my volleyball companions yesterday about deep tissue massage. They swear by it! So I think I might try it out because right now I can only run every other day...I need at least one day of rest to feel better and I don't like that. I would like to go back to my regular running and weight lifting schedule.

So I might try the deep tissue thing and see how that goes since no much else helps!

 

[stovebolts]

Go for it! But remember it's gonna hurt

Here was my experience

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=45890

 

[LaMexicana]

Go for it! But remember it's gonna hurt

Here was my experience

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=45890

Yes! I've heard it's very painful!! Actually, my chiro did something similar to deep tissue but it wasn't enough to make me feel any different. I'm definitely going to look into it because I haven't been able to run and it's killing me! I hate it

 

[7ruth]

I don't suffer from it, if I did though I definently would get this.

 

[LaMexicana]

I don't suffer from it, if I did though I definently would get this.

Oooh...only $14.95...