Back pain

[Mrsfloss]

Hi,

Please can anyone give me any advice regarding my back. I started running in January and done really well up to around 6 weeks ago where I started getting jarring sensation in my lower back. Went to see physio who stated he felt my core wasn't strong enough to support my legs whilst running. To take it day by day and excercise if pain ok. I have been having weekly manipulation and putting pelvic floor into neutral which instantly helps. He has said that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with my back but could have been over exvercising. Queue 6 weeks later I remain in constant pain. Doc says muscular and has px naproxen which isn't touching the sides. Making me feel sick and I can hardly move. It's like a pinching on left side and radiating up to shoulder, neck and head.

I just want to be able to excercise three times a week and not be in constant pain

Anyone?

Meant to add I stopped excerciding but doing Pilates one to one with instructer then next day feel horrendous

Please anyone

I have different back pain, more sciatic and coccyx related, but the following help:

A decent physio. I've been referred under the NHD to the Crystal Palace Physio Group who despite the name have people in various places round the country and specislise in sports physio but have treated me for various things. They've been brilliant. A mixture if diagnosis, massage, exercises. I'm given a printed out sheet of exercises, not just the ones available on the internet, with recommendations about what not to do.

Doing my exercises and stretches in the swimming pool. I look a right idiot but who cares. It's supportive and relaxing.

Careful exercise in the gym.

When desperate, using a TENS machine

Icepacks in the freezer on stand by ( or frozen peas)

Ditto hot water bottles.

Being prepared to look stupid and lie down on the floor if necessary.

HTH

Does the tens help?

Yes.

I ignore the instructions and turn it up as high as I can. I leave it on all night, not for the 15-40 mins. Initially it's v painful but occupies the mind which is what it is supposed to do.

I've discovered this through trial and error and pain.

When lying in the floor, make sure one knee is bent upwards, sole of foot on the floor, for at least some of the time. Vary which knee. Will put pressure on diff areas of back and muscles.

Thank you. Second day of pain

Thought I'd sent another response last night..

You know you can alternate eg paracetamol and ibuprofen, don't you, and indeed taken together. So if you are on a six hourly cycle with one, you can do a six hourly cycle with the other so that at no point do you get the down 2 hours waiting for the next pain killer?

I know that doesn't help when it's not under control at all. But once it is, just about, it's really helpful.

Have you thought if ringing the NHS number and discovering what other painkillers you can use?

Have you been shown how to exercise your core muscles correctly by the physio? It is important you do this every day. It's sounds similar to hypermobility. Has this been considered? It causes my lower back to feel like you have described. In me it is my sacroiliac joints that subluxate (partially dislocate).