pain relief

[elicokiz]

Just been to the planet mongo after taking Co-codamol for a strained neck muscle:thumbdown:how do you guys cope with getting older and taking pain releif??..do you just grin and bear it and slap on the emoliant at night.. well it works with my missus anyway

[Pete Hart]

I make sure i spend 10 to 15 minutes stretching every morning before work. I concentrate on the main muscle pairings, back and neck.... it gets me going and nice and supple first thing. Given that a decent cure is all too difficult to find (pharmaceuticals for this and that!), prevention is the only thing on my mind!

[Pete Hart]

and if that doesn't work.... i have to nag the missus for a rub down!!

[Mick Stockbridge]

Hahaha[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yo1bGLI6ig&feature=related]YouTube - Platoon scene[/ame]

[tommer9]

I love co-codamol.

I also rate tramadol as a pain killer.

You do have to be aware of the side effects, and plan accordingly though.

I find that the amount required does depend on how much stretching and warming up exercises are undertaken though.

[Dan76]

You'll maybe chuckle at this one.........I do pilates once a week. My misses is a farrier and she's been going to classes for 3 years now. She suggested I try going to them...my first thought being a bloke and all was aye right! Long story short(ish) I used to see a chiropractor every 3 to 4 months but since going to the pilates classes I haven't been once and its over a year now.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Paramol (dihydrocodiene - an opiate) rocks!

[tommer9]

I used to see a chiropractor every 3 to 4 months

You see therein lies half your problem- the pilates is great, but not having one of those money grabbing morons messing your back up will have helped enormously. If you do need to see a specialist, see a physiotherapist, chiropractors are responsible for a large part of remedial patients seen by physiotherapists, who-unlike chiroprators- are actually recognised as medical practitioners. Chiropractors are classed as alternative therapy, along with the likes of herbalists, reiki healers etc etc.

[Dan76]

Didn't know that about chiros. As/when/if the next visit will be to a physio, although the pilates seems to do the trick at the mo

[tommer9]

Chiros are great, IF what they offer (mostly manipulation (bone crunching)) is what your back requires. Unfortunately this is not actually required in most cases, and can/ does cause alot of arthritic problems, and can lead to prolapsed discs (as hapened to 2 of my friends at different chiros). The usual form is that they will ask to x-ray you, even if you have recent x-rays from, say, the hospital and that is how they first make money. Then they will need you to keep coming back, and often tell you it will be a certain length of treatment. This too is nonsense, as it is technically impossible to tell the extent of any spino-skeletal problems on a first visit, as muscles are generally so tense and knotted in reaction to the pain that a true diagnosis cannot be made.

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