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Pulled back muscle
- Thread starter Cbelle
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Specifically my lower back on the right side is killing me. Especially at nite and when I wake up in hte morning. It seems to loosen up during the day to a more bearable pain. I'm not sure how to describe it and this is my first injury so I have nothing to compare it to. I'm fairly certain it happened while doing S & H Back....all those flat back tabletop positions while doing dumbbell rows just weren't working for me.
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Dorothyrd
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I pulled my mid/upper back muscle last May and it bothered me all summer, even resulting in low back pain, because I had to carry myself differently and be very careful what I did. What has helped me the most is massage therapy. Sometimes when an area has pain, it is really caused by some other area being to tight and pulling on that area. Massage therapy can help loosen up those muscles and they can work on specific areas. They also can tell you if they can help, or if you need to go to a doctor.
Between this, heating pads, and time, I am starting to feel much better. I have decided that deadlifts are out for now, maybe for always as this seems to aggravate things.
Dorothy
Between this, heating pads, and time, I am starting to feel much better. I have decided that deadlifts are out for now, maybe for always as this seems to aggravate things.
Dorothy
Gettingfit
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Sep-30-02 AT 09:54AM (Est)[/font][p]A chiropractor may help, but I find it helpful to rest & stetch. I have chronic back pain due to spinal stenosis (a narrowing of the spinal column) and a compressed disk with normal age degeneration. Here are some exercises given to me this summer while I was in physical therapy.
DO NOT DO ANY OF THIS IF YOU FEEL MORE PAIN!!!! SEEK THE ADVICE OF A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. Lay on the floor with your knees drawn up & feet flat (as though you were going to do a crunch). Do a pelvic tilt for 10 seconds, let it go & repeat. Also, in the same position, put your hands behind your head (again like you were going to crunch), drop your knees to one side for 10 seconds & then go to the other side for 10. Again in the same position, pull one knee to your chest, count to 10, do the other side. Finally draw up both knees for 10 sec., repeat 10 times. Do all of these (in no particular order), twice a day.
AGAIN LET ME STRESS DO NOT DO THESE STRETCHES IF YOU FEEL MORE DISCOMFORT OF PAIN FROM DOING THEM. I used to have pain everyday, but I have now been pain free for 2 months because I take 5 minutes twice a day & do this.
One more thing...a heating pad 20 minutes a couple times a day does wonders.
Just to add to my disclaimer -- it may not work for everyone. Hope you feel better soon.
Deborah
DO NOT DO ANY OF THIS IF YOU FEEL MORE PAIN!!!! SEEK THE ADVICE OF A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. Lay on the floor with your knees drawn up & feet flat (as though you were going to do a crunch). Do a pelvic tilt for 10 seconds, let it go & repeat. Also, in the same position, put your hands behind your head (again like you were going to crunch), drop your knees to one side for 10 seconds & then go to the other side for 10. Again in the same position, pull one knee to your chest, count to 10, do the other side. Finally draw up both knees for 10 sec., repeat 10 times. Do all of these (in no particular order), twice a day.
AGAIN LET ME STRESS DO NOT DO THESE STRETCHES IF YOU FEEL MORE DISCOMFORT OF PAIN FROM DOING THEM. I used to have pain everyday, but I have now been pain free for 2 months because I take 5 minutes twice a day & do this.
One more thing...a heating pad 20 minutes a couple times a day does wonders.
Just to add to my disclaimer -- it may not work for everyone. Hope you feel better soon.
Deborah
Hi:
I have just done the same thing!!! In the Summer when I injured my knee hiking, the doctor I saw at the ER told me to take 3 ibuprofen tablets (200mg each) three times a day to reduce swelling. Since this also is effective therapy for muscular strains, I am now applying the same to myself for this pulled back muscle. It is not fabulous to take these medicines over the long range, but I am doing it for a week because I cannot afford to hobble about: I have classes to teach, a PhD to do and two kids to look after. So I am taking this medicine to get myself moving again.
Also, I read just last night in Self magazine that one way to help get these sorts of injuries back on the road to recovery is active rest, i.e. go on with daily life, and incorporate exercise back in just as soon as you can. I am hoping to be able to start walking again this week, and then ease right back in. We obviously both need to strengthen our "core" too.
Good luck to you
Clare
I have just done the same thing!!! In the Summer when I injured my knee hiking, the doctor I saw at the ER told me to take 3 ibuprofen tablets (200mg each) three times a day to reduce swelling. Since this also is effective therapy for muscular strains, I am now applying the same to myself for this pulled back muscle. It is not fabulous to take these medicines over the long range, but I am doing it for a week because I cannot afford to hobble about: I have classes to teach, a PhD to do and two kids to look after. So I am taking this medicine to get myself moving again.
Also, I read just last night in Self magazine that one way to help get these sorts of injuries back on the road to recovery is active rest, i.e. go on with daily life, and incorporate exercise back in just as soon as you can. I am hoping to be able to start walking again this week, and then ease right back in. We obviously both need to strengthen our "core" too.
Good luck to you
Clare