Pain

[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"

[nepia]

Wise words there Billhook (from a 56-year old) but if my treatment regressed on the way home I'd be looking for a new chiro; mine gives me a few days' grace. But I don't hold it against the guy as from his perspective I shouldn't be doing with my back what I do.

 

Taking painkillers to allow yourself to continue doing whatever causes the pain really is not a good move; you only mask the pain, which is Nature's Stop sign.

[Gary Prentice]

I find being scottish helps fight pain,when your constantly moaning about the weather,how crap your job is,how the english government have screwed us over for years...pain just gets ignored.

So theres your answer grow a ginger beard, wear a kilt and dine exsclusivly on deep fried foods..stereotype!

 

Deep fried mars bars- the universal cure all when washed down with iron brew.

[Gary Prentice]

Wise words there Billhook (from a 56-year old) but if my treatment regressed on the way home I'd be looking for a new chiro; mine gives me a few days' grace. But I don't hold it against the guy as from his perspective I shouldn't be doing with my back what I do.

 

Taking painkillers to allow yourself to continue doing whatever causes the pain really is not a good move; you only mask the pain, which is Nature's Stop sign.

 

Definitely. Pain killers allow you to continue doing things and can cause more and more problems. I climbed with a broken collar bone for three months, thinking it was a soft tissue injury. The real issuer was weakened bones due to bone marrow cancer.

[Taupotreeman]

Just had my eighth or ninth cortisone injection in my left shoulder. Apparently a subluxation or dislocation of the AC joint so pain management is the only option, other than finding another job that is.

[Billhook]

Just had my eighth or ninth cortisone injection in my left shoulder. Apparently a subluxation or dislocation of the AC joint so pain management is the only option, other than finding another job that is.

 

Have you tried this?

 

 

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[Taupotreeman]

Have you tried this?

 

 

 

 

 

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Tokaanu thermal and mineral pools are five minutes up the road from me (similar to Hells Gate) It does help but the injury needs more chemical methods in addition.

[csservices]

I've got bad lower back pain for the first time in about ten years reckon it's due to spending half a day bouncing round a field on a customers compact tractor as I used to get the exact same problem tractor driving all the time until I swapped the seats for air seats, the old Spring type don't absorb enough shock and cause spinal compression, best thing I've found over the years is once it heals doing some light weight lifting to strengthen it again helps, whilst you've got it movelat cream or similar helps ease it, at minute I've got lower back pain, pain in my left hand so can't hold weight on it, my left knees giving me gyp (years of driving heavy clutches) and my left hip pings out every now and again without warning, ideally timed as I'm up to my ears in work 🙄😄

[spudulike]

Well I am 62 and I think it works !

 

Missed this one:lol: same here Andy, have a big IB before bed and wake up feeling ready for whatever the day throws at me:thumbup: