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I have over the last few days got a back ache.
The two muscles either side of the length of the spine are quite hard at the minute as I did some gym work the other day, and its the left hand muscle that aches, its ok when I wake up but gradually gets worse through the day. Is there anything I can do? Or take to ease it as my chair at work isn't great and its starting to piss me off. I am 22 for the record...
The two muscles either side of the length of the spine are quite hard at the minute as I did some gym work the other day, and its the left hand muscle that aches, its ok when I wake up but gradually gets worse through the day. Is there anything I can do? Or take to ease it as my chair at work isn't great and its starting to piss me off. I am 22 for the record...
If it is an aching lower back muscle (erector spinae) and it has started aching after a gym session it may just be DOMS in a very tender muscle.
It probably means that you are not recruiting the muscles in the posterior chain correctly. The hamstrings and the glutes should do most of the work and the erector spinae should have a supporting role.
To alleviate the pain short term get a tennis ball, lie on your back and roll the tennis ball over the tender spot. This will bring blood to the area which will help repair the 'damaged' muscle.
Long term, if this is a weak muscle it should strengthen and won't hurt as much. Also make sure that your lifting technique is correct and get someone who knows what they are doing to check your muscle are firing in the right order.
Tristan
It probably means that you are not recruiting the muscles in the posterior chain correctly. The hamstrings and the glutes should do most of the work and the erector spinae should have a supporting role.
To alleviate the pain short term get a tennis ball, lie on your back and roll the tennis ball over the tender spot. This will bring blood to the area which will help repair the 'damaged' muscle.
Long term, if this is a weak muscle it should strengthen and won't hurt as much. Also make sure that your lifting technique is correct and get someone who knows what they are doing to check your muscle are firing in the right order.
Tristan
TristanGardner said:
If it is an aching lower back muscle (erector spinae) and it has started aching after a gym session it may just be DOMS in a very tender muscle.
It probably means that you are not recruiting the muscles in the posterior chain correctly. The hamstrings and the glutes should do most of the work and the erector spinae should have a supporting role.
To alleviate the pain short term get a tennis ball, lie on your back and roll the tennis ball over the tender spot. This will bring blood to the area which will help repair the 'damaged' muscle.
Long term, if this is a weak muscle it should strengthen and won't hurt as much. Also make sure that your lifting technique is correct and get someone who knows what they are doing to check your muscle are firing in the right order.
Tristan
Its kind of in the middle of the back, and yes my form in deadilft has always been ok in the past, although I am doing weights I have never done before currently. But I have never had back issues in the past.It probably means that you are not recruiting the muscles in the posterior chain correctly. The hamstrings and the glutes should do most of the work and the erector spinae should have a supporting role.
To alleviate the pain short term get a tennis ball, lie on your back and roll the tennis ball over the tender spot. This will bring blood to the area which will help repair the 'damaged' muscle.
Long term, if this is a weak muscle it should strengthen and won't hurt as much. Also make sure that your lifting technique is correct and get someone who knows what they are doing to check your muscle are firing in the right order.
Tristan
I will try the ball thing, and also try and rest it as much as possible, but the chairs at work are s
t, and it even aches lying on the sofa.
I'm 3years into my 2nd bout chronic back pain almost entirely referred sciatica (which is just a symptom of something else) and I'm right royally bored of it, and I'm no nearer gettng it fixed. A first operation in 98 to decompress a disc worked, but an operation last April, a fishing exercise, revealed only some scar tissue, and the consultant and the 2nd opinion have about given up now and are mysterfied as to what's causing it, and it is fking annoying and boring. No amount of physio has cleared up, chiropracter, osteopath, MRI, ct scans, EMG studies has revealed or sorted the problem. So you have my sympathies, quite after 500-600 years of medical science the common a garden Bad back, causing all those lost uk mandays at work has not been figured Out yet I don't know. My lot only want to discuss pain management strategies now, when I insisted on being given a diagnosis, something Latin, so I could at least tell people in short hand what it is, and do more of my own research and explain to my employer, when someone suggests I'm grumpy tt, then fhe consultant suggested it might be Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, which i thought he had made up on the spot, until wiki'd it and the acronym was dangerously close to CRaPS for my liking. "There's so much we still don't understand..."
anyway i wouldn't be in any rush to go for an operation, and in truth for all their "gold standard", I'm not so sure they know entirely how we work, backs are complicated. I'm beginning to see my back problem as some kind of a test likesome awful Grail quest, and if I just don't settle for management, I might find a fix. I don't know what caused it to start again, but feels mechanical something impinging on something else and that ought to be fixable.
I've started Chan Gunn acupuncture this week, we shall see... Hey if conventional medicine is out of ideas, time to give alternative a try, quack medicine next.
Incidently I've just been directed to this by a friend. Anyone had a back problem treated as a bacterial infection?! This has never been mentioned by anyone I've spoken to in the nhs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1249524/...
king annoying and boring. No amount of physio has cleared up, chiropracter, osteopath, MRI, ct scans, EMG studies has revealed or sorted the problem. So you have my sympathies, quite after 500-600 years of medical science the common a garden Bad back, causing all those lost uk mandays at work has not been figured Out yet I don't know. My lot only want to discuss pain management strategies now, when I insisted on being given a diagnosis, something Latin, so I could at least tell people in short hand what it is, and do more of my own research and explain to my employer, when someone suggests I'm grumpy tt, then fhe consultant suggested it might be Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, which i thought he had made up on the spot, until wiki'd it and the acronym was dangerously close to CRaPS for my liking. "There's so much we still don't understand..." anyway i wouldn't be in any rush to go for an operation, and in truth for all their "gold standard", I'm not so sure they know entirely how we work, backs are complicated. I'm beginning to see my back problem as some kind of a test likesome awful Grail quest, and if I just don't settle for management, I might find a fix. I don't know what caused it to start again, but feels mechanical something impinging on something else and that ought to be fixable.
I've started Chan Gunn acupuncture this week, we shall see... Hey if conventional medicine is out of ideas, time to give alternative a try, quack medicine next.
Incidently I've just been directed to this by a friend. Anyone had a back problem treated as a bacterial infection?! This has never been mentioned by anyone I've spoken to in the nhs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1249524/...
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