Back Pain...
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I am a believer in the chiropractor. If one thing is out of alignment, everything goes out of alignment. Not too long ago the Hubby was having back problems--his hip was out of place. Once back in place he was fine. There are different techniques--I like the hands-on, not the the little device that looks like a small metal pogo stick. If you have never been, at first it's like, "okay....what is he doing....WTF? I AM NOT AN OWL!" See Eddie Izzard's Dressed to Kill. I go in about 1x per month to have everything adjusted. Because I sneeze so hard, I have a couple of ribs that go out of place. I have TMJ so I have my jaw reset when it gets too painful. I have read that your knees should be at the 90 degree angle when sitting at your desk. I prefer to sit what is refered to as "Indian style" in my chair. If I get up at least once every 1/2 hour that also helps. I have a vertical mouse so my forearm bones don't twist, and a split keyboard. Stretching and yoga also help.
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leckey wrote:
Because I sneeze so hard, I have a couple of ribs that go out of place.
:omg: Flippin eck leckey, restrain yourself!
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Hey John a while back you and I hashed out back pain for a good 5 or 10 posts and you said that you had your workspace adjusted and it really helped. Can you describe chair height? Mine was really high and my feet couldn't touch the floor. It made me slouch a lot. I've lowered it and don't slouch as much. Now I'm wondering... is there a too low and is there a just right and do you have an opinion on low/high? Anyone besides John can jump in. I'm just really curious to hear from people what their experience has been. I decided that despite the pain I wanted to be an athlete more than I wanted to be dependent on pain medicines. So I stopped all the pain medicines. Since then I've become very attenuated to what hurts and relieves my back pain. Oddly enough if I don't exercise I'm a hurting man for sure. I've also found that push-ups (hold them for 10 seconds at the top) are a pain-killer on their own for me. So instead of taking morphine, oxycontin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, [addicto]codone I'm looking for other options. Since my butt spends 12 hours a day in a chair minimum I figured that might be a good place to start. Of course getting less chair time would be nice too.
modified on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:45 PM
I stopped putting my wallet (very thin, if you want to know :-D ) in my back pocket. The pain from my crushed vertebrae went away (almost). The story about how I got the crushed vertebrae involves a love-sick 800 kilogram Holstein-Fresian and an iron bar...
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Hey John a while back you and I hashed out back pain for a good 5 or 10 posts and you said that you had your workspace adjusted and it really helped. Can you describe chair height? Mine was really high and my feet couldn't touch the floor. It made me slouch a lot. I've lowered it and don't slouch as much. Now I'm wondering... is there a too low and is there a just right and do you have an opinion on low/high? Anyone besides John can jump in. I'm just really curious to hear from people what their experience has been. I decided that despite the pain I wanted to be an athlete more than I wanted to be dependent on pain medicines. So I stopped all the pain medicines. Since then I've become very attenuated to what hurts and relieves my back pain. Oddly enough if I don't exercise I'm a hurting man for sure. I've also found that push-ups (hold them for 10 seconds at the top) are a pain-killer on their own for me. So instead of taking morphine, oxycontin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, [addicto]codone I'm looking for other options. Since my butt spends 12 hours a day in a chair minimum I figured that might be a good place to start. Of course getting less chair time would be nice too.
modified on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:45 PM
you might be interested in one of these: http://www.hagdirect.com//category-6470/product-18952/H%c3%85G/HÅG-H03-350.html[^] absoutely brilliant chair, it costs £££ but it's done wonders for my back. By far the best chair I've ever sat in. The chair doesn't have a locked position - instead it rocks so your body is in motion the entire time you are sat in it, without you really realising. It feels weird sitting in a non-pivoting chair now.
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Only if you feel like it. If I wasn't representing my company so often online in other places I'd definitely have stuck with the full name. I think your name is only stored in one place, that was my experience.
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
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Hey John a while back you and I hashed out back pain for a good 5 or 10 posts and you said that you had your workspace adjusted and it really helped. Can you describe chair height? Mine was really high and my feet couldn't touch the floor. It made me slouch a lot. I've lowered it and don't slouch as much. Now I'm wondering... is there a too low and is there a just right and do you have an opinion on low/high? Anyone besides John can jump in. I'm just really curious to hear from people what their experience has been. I decided that despite the pain I wanted to be an athlete more than I wanted to be dependent on pain medicines. So I stopped all the pain medicines. Since then I've become very attenuated to what hurts and relieves my back pain. Oddly enough if I don't exercise I'm a hurting man for sure. I've also found that push-ups (hold them for 10 seconds at the top) are a pain-killer on their own for me. So instead of taking morphine, oxycontin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, [addicto]codone I'm looking for other options. Since my butt spends 12 hours a day in a chair minimum I figured that might be a good place to start. Of course getting less chair time would be nice too.
modified on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:45 PM
My advice is: move ur fat ass and go for walk, go swim, ride a bicycle, stop eat that fat ugly tasting burgers, get a real life instead of sitting on butt and watching dots on LCD. And ask urself a question: do i want to be happy and healthy or do i want to be 'no life' and die in pain? Choice is yours.
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Geeze...maybe I should get an alias? :~ Can you change your account name and your posts & articles change with it? There are so many guys in the world named David Lockwood that I guess I can hide...there's one here in town and I'm always getting phonecalls for him. It wasn't meeeeeeeeee...it was another Dave...an evil Dave....and..and...I killed him :)
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Hey John a while back you and I hashed out back pain for a good 5 or 10 posts and you said that you had your workspace adjusted and it really helped. Can you describe chair height? Mine was really high and my feet couldn't touch the floor. It made me slouch a lot. I've lowered it and don't slouch as much. Now I'm wondering... is there a too low and is there a just right and do you have an opinion on low/high? Anyone besides John can jump in. I'm just really curious to hear from people what their experience has been. I decided that despite the pain I wanted to be an athlete more than I wanted to be dependent on pain medicines. So I stopped all the pain medicines. Since then I've become very attenuated to what hurts and relieves my back pain. Oddly enough if I don't exercise I'm a hurting man for sure. I've also found that push-ups (hold them for 10 seconds at the top) are a pain-killer on their own for me. So instead of taking morphine, oxycontin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, [addicto]codone I'm looking for other options. Since my butt spends 12 hours a day in a chair minimum I figured that might be a good place to start. Of course getting less chair time would be nice too.
modified on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:45 PM
Try a physio ball instead of a chair. I've been doing this for a few years now and I'm convinced that it has saved me. The main advantage to the ball is that it has almost no mass so almost everything you do causes you to move a little bit. Every time you move you use your back muscles which improves circualtion, keeps the muscles from stiffening up and hopefully reduces muscle atrophy. I also tend to sit up straigter, the most comfortable way to sit on the ball is with your but on the forward part of the ball with your feet tucked in in the front. This naturally makes you tend to sit straight. It's also great if you want to stretch out. The down side is that you sit lower than you probably would otherwise, other people like to kick it around and they can be cold in the winter. Sometimes I get tired of it and go back to a regualar chair, but the back aches always bring me back Good luck ;)
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My advice is: move ur fat ass and go for walk, go swim, ride a bicycle, stop eat that fat ugly tasting burgers, get a real life instead of sitting on butt and watching dots on LCD. And ask urself a question: do i want to be happy and healthy or do i want to be 'no life' and die in pain? Choice is yours.
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leckey wrote:
Because I sneeze so hard, I have a couple of ribs that go out of place.
:omg: Flippin eck leckey, restrain yourself!
It's worse when I try to hold back the sneeze, like in meetings. I've actually started crying. I'm considering contacting the Guiness Book of World Records to see if I have the loudest sneeze. Oh, I'm not allowed to sneeze in the car without warning my hubby.
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It's worse when I try to hold back the sneeze, like in meetings. I've actually started crying. I'm considering contacting the Guiness Book of World Records to see if I have the loudest sneeze. Oh, I'm not allowed to sneeze in the car without warning my hubby.
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Ouch...I think we need to see a leckey sneeze on youtube... :laugh:
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Someone created a new account to troll.:suss:
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Givina advices how to stay a little more healthy is troling in ur opinion? Thats interesting.
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Ouch...I think we need to see a leckey sneeze on youtube... :laugh:
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Givina advices how to stay a little more healthy is troling in ur opinion? Thats interesting.
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Hey John a while back you and I hashed out back pain for a good 5 or 10 posts and you said that you had your workspace adjusted and it really helped. Can you describe chair height? Mine was really high and my feet couldn't touch the floor. It made me slouch a lot. I've lowered it and don't slouch as much. Now I'm wondering... is there a too low and is there a just right and do you have an opinion on low/high? Anyone besides John can jump in. I'm just really curious to hear from people what their experience has been. I decided that despite the pain I wanted to be an athlete more than I wanted to be dependent on pain medicines. So I stopped all the pain medicines. Since then I've become very attenuated to what hurts and relieves my back pain. Oddly enough if I don't exercise I'm a hurting man for sure. I've also found that push-ups (hold them for 10 seconds at the top) are a pain-killer on their own for me. So instead of taking morphine, oxycontin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, [addicto]codone I'm looking for other options. Since my butt spends 12 hours a day in a chair minimum I figured that might be a good place to start. Of course getting less chair time would be nice too.
modified on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:45 PM
I strongly suggest getting the book 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back by Esther Gokhale and Susan Adams. It covers not only sitting, but also standing, walking, and sleeping. It's available for about $16 on Amazon, where it has received unanimous 5 star ratings from 22 reviewers. Exercise can certainly provide temporary relief by stimulating production of endorphins. But in the long term, exercise done with improper body alignment can actually exacerbate the problem. Get the book.
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Hey John a while back you and I hashed out back pain for a good 5 or 10 posts and you said that you had your workspace adjusted and it really helped. Can you describe chair height? Mine was really high and my feet couldn't touch the floor. It made me slouch a lot. I've lowered it and don't slouch as much. Now I'm wondering... is there a too low and is there a just right and do you have an opinion on low/high? Anyone besides John can jump in. I'm just really curious to hear from people what their experience has been. I decided that despite the pain I wanted to be an athlete more than I wanted to be dependent on pain medicines. So I stopped all the pain medicines. Since then I've become very attenuated to what hurts and relieves my back pain. Oddly enough if I don't exercise I'm a hurting man for sure. I've also found that push-ups (hold them for 10 seconds at the top) are a pain-killer on their own for me. So instead of taking morphine, oxycontin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, [addicto]codone I'm looking for other options. Since my butt spends 12 hours a day in a chair minimum I figured that might be a good place to start. Of course getting less chair time would be nice too.
modified on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:45 PM
You could try an exercise ball instead of a chair. It should force you to keep good posture, and help you get to that more athletic state. I know one of my co-workers does this. I'm going to try it as soon as I can get my hands on one.
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Try a physio ball instead of a chair. I've been doing this for a few years now and I'm convinced that it has saved me. The main advantage to the ball is that it has almost no mass so almost everything you do causes you to move a little bit. Every time you move you use your back muscles which improves circualtion, keeps the muscles from stiffening up and hopefully reduces muscle atrophy. I also tend to sit up straigter, the most comfortable way to sit on the ball is with your but on the forward part of the ball with your feet tucked in in the front. This naturally makes you tend to sit straight. It's also great if you want to stretch out. The down side is that you sit lower than you probably would otherwise, other people like to kick it around and they can be cold in the winter. Sometimes I get tired of it and go back to a regualar chair, but the back aches always bring me back Good luck ;)
Whoops didn't see your post... you've got the right idea. Probably one of the coolest things I've seen done in an office in a long time.
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My advice is: move ur fat ass and go for walk, go swim, ride a bicycle, stop eat that fat ugly tasting burgers, get a real life instead of sitting on butt and watching dots on LCD. And ask urself a question: do i want to be happy and healthy or do i want to be 'no life' and die in pain? Choice is yours.
I used to weigh 264 pounds. I'm down to 177 and am aiming for 165. I exercise 6 days a week for a minimum of 2 hours every day. ... ... You were saying?:cool:
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SatanIsTheLord wrote:
Givina
Who/what? You were being RUDE. (Even if you changed your name.)
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You think im changed my name because of ur very important person? Or u just want to flash ur blog link?
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I used to weigh 264 pounds. I'm down to 177 and am aiming for 165. I exercise 6 days a week for a minimum of 2 hours every day. ... ... You were saying?:cool:
More! Harder! :cool:
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Hey John a while back you and I hashed out back pain for a good 5 or 10 posts and you said that you had your workspace adjusted and it really helped. Can you describe chair height? Mine was really high and my feet couldn't touch the floor. It made me slouch a lot. I've lowered it and don't slouch as much. Now I'm wondering... is there a too low and is there a just right and do you have an opinion on low/high? Anyone besides John can jump in. I'm just really curious to hear from people what their experience has been. I decided that despite the pain I wanted to be an athlete more than I wanted to be dependent on pain medicines. So I stopped all the pain medicines. Since then I've become very attenuated to what hurts and relieves my back pain. Oddly enough if I don't exercise I'm a hurting man for sure. I've also found that push-ups (hold them for 10 seconds at the top) are a pain-killer on their own for me. So instead of taking morphine, oxycontin, oxycodone, hydrocodone, [addicto]codone I'm looking for other options. Since my butt spends 12 hours a day in a chair minimum I figured that might be a good place to start. Of course getting less chair time would be nice too.
modified on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:45 PM
A really good pushup program is this one: http://www.100pushups.infoThey take a really good approach to it and it really works!
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