Pain

[devon TWiG]

Daft thing is the cheapest I've found it for here is £33. In Germany, hundreds of miles from where it is distilled, it's £24. Why the hell is that?!

 

It is deliberately done ... minimum alcohol price to stop the population north of the border being greater alcoholics than they already are !!! .....Cider is cheap in Devon and we export "Bucky" to you !!!

[biggarlogs]

Try this

 

 

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If I could do any of those excersises I would eat my hat!

[peckerwood2016]

Slowly you'll get the have been a steel fixer for years ( rebar) plus had a go at being a coal man for 8years so my back was shot couldn't sit down for more than a couple of minutes at a time but now I'm the best I've been for years with a few simple moves while laying on your back

 

 

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[Commando]

Try this

 

 

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I think that's a take on the 7 lower back stretches..

 

http://theheartysoul.com/stretching-exercises-for-lower-back-pain/

 

My Mrs swears by then.

[peckerwood2016]

I do to

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

I tried a few of peckerwood's stretches for my hamstrings and sciatica. Just googled them but they do help heaps.

[Stubby]

Try this

 

 

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And look how thin its made you !

[peckerwood2016]

Ha ha I'm like a racing whippet

 

 

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[biggarlogs]

oh dear im no whipet,more like a over inflated elephant:thumbdown:

[Billhook]

I am over sixty now and I used to have a lot of back pain in my twenties and thirties which I do not have so much of now.

 

Lessons learned over sixty years

 

1. I always start the day with a 4 mile bike ride which includes two steep hills so that most muscles are warm before starting physical work and the body system has been given a chance to work properly

 

2 With chainsaws most of the work I can do with the smallest Stihl 170s so I am not carrying something around that is too heavy/noisy/powerful/ vibration prone. Try and buy the best antivibration saw, wear ear defenders and good gloves

 

3 Really consider what I am doing before I try to lift something and if the forklift/hydraulic grab is there use it. If the peavey is there use it.

 

4 I try to miniimise the handling when cutting up a tree so that once the branches are stacked on the muck grab I do not have to lift them again until I take them out of the ton box and put them on the fire. The muck grab presents them to the Palax Combi in much the same way as a log deck.

 

5 Do not soldier on after a minor injury just to prove what a man you are in front of your workmates.

 

6 I do not use ibruprofen as I need to know what is hurting

 

7. Once you have a bad back or neck I have found that massage and chiro only relieve while they are being administered and often I am back to square one by the time I have driven home.

With backs and necks the solution for me is to strengthen the muscles around those areas with exercises which will hopefully hold the vertebrae apart so the nerves are not trapped so easily. Once the damage has been done it will never be quite the same but you can help a lot by strengthening exercises

My recovery time now is much shorter when I have the warning "twinge"