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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: jimson on August 09, 2018, 08:08:19 pm
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G'day viewers, I've been suffering for years with this and I'm going to physio on Tuesday this coming week & was wondering if anyone on here has any experience with this and how did you deal with it ? I can't ride a motor bike as it takes over my right leg and the pain is farrrrrk'n uncomfortable. I rode a motorbike back from Sydney a while back when I arrived home I had to put the stand down and just fall of the side of the bike as I couldn't lift my leg or put weight on it. jimson
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Yes, when I was in my 30s. It was terrible all right. I used to go to a therapist called Charles Angles or Angels at Alexandra Hills in Brissy who used to push it back into its groove which was fairly painful at the time but did work for a while each time. I eventually stopped having sciatic nerve problems.
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Wow I just looked and Charles is still in business after all these years https://www.facebook.com/pages/Charles-Angles/535811356437359
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I have it down both legs, homone treatment & anti-inflammatories have the pain reduced at the moment, l went to one of Victoria's top back surgeons (David De La Harpe) and pushed him to do an mri, we found the 'nerve impegement' between a couple of vertibra.
David says a simple operation to trim back the opening where the nerve exits the spine, he says l'll walk out the hospital the same day.
I just have to book in for the op now.
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ridden bikes since i was 13 and no dramas, bit of a dodgy knee and some minor hip soreness (old man has had three hips replaced).
three years ago, the wife bought a "clip clop" and we were leaving to go on holis and i had to drop off a round bale of hay for it and it landed on its side in the wrong spot... so i got a crow bar and got it back on its edge and rolled it into a "better spot". During that exercise something went pop in my lower back and ive had all sorts of constant but mild pain since. Bloody clip clop! they are dangerous!
when it gets bad i get the shooting pain down my left leg. the best cure i have found is riding the dirt bike. the exercise of the movement to stay upright keeps the side muscles tight and strong and this supports the weak disc area. a pushy can be a great help too.
i rode the Harrow event recently and have been pain free since but i can feel it creeping in as ive been on the computer since. i guess i will have to go and get it mri'd one day and hopefully there is a simple outcome.
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So far I had 5 Operations at different levels and places .( Canal enlargements , laminectomy ,discectomy and some general trimming each time at different levels ) They all helped. Make fusion the absolute last option. It is irreversible and may not always help . Like they say , chasing wealth with your health when young, means chasing your health with your wealth when you are old . So true .Riding those chrome trolleys with 4 inch Bilsteins certainly didn't help.
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I had a disc prolapse at L4-L5 many years ago and this gave me grief for ages. Regular massage then merged into strength training and I have no issues now.
I spent 6 week flat on my back after the prolapse, was eating panadeine forte like smarties, and when they said "avoid alcohol, it will make you sleepy" well, that was what I craved. Sleep through alcohol.
Not much recollection of that period except that it hurt a bloody lot.
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G'day viewers and thanks for all the feed back, so happy its not a op situation. It appears I have a tight butt lol the bum cheek muscle is strangling the siatic nerve. I've been given some stretches to release the tension and been told not to try so hard lol
30 years of on & off pain and its down to stretching. farrrrrk'n hopefully this is the go, as it'll be nice to find some normality in the body's movement's. jimson
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G'day viewers and thanks for all the feed back, so happy its not a op situation. It appears I have a tight butt lol the bum cheek muscle is strangling the siatic nerve. I've been given some stretches to release the tension and been told not to try so hard lol
30 years of on & off pain and its down to stretching. farrrrrk'n hopefully this is the go, as it'll be nice to find some normality in the body's movement's. jimson
So you're a 'tight arse' ;-)
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Yeah, I'm so tight I have compression seizures lol jimson
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G'day viewers and thanks for all the feed back, so happy its not a op situation. It appears I have a tight butt lol the bum cheek muscle is strangling the siatic nerve. I've been given some stretches to release the tension and been told not to try so hard lol
30 years of on & off pain and its down to stretching. farrrrrk'n hopefully this is the go, as it'll be nice to find some normality in the body's movement's. jimson
Same issue in my right leg glute area.
Same diagnosis.
Stretching fixes it, and sometimes I pay a massage person to do it and although it hurts and they tell me to be quiet ;D, it helps a lot.
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I had this a couple of month ago Left Cheek Pain like Buggery down the Leg.
when to the physio he said stretch it and Soak it in a Hot bath and massage
your butt while your in the tub got over it in a couple of weeks
The Stig
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longest nerve in the body, goes all the way to the big toe and if you pinch it when it exits the spine,, yeah.
I have a back swing that's brilliant, those things you lay on and get turned upside down, This takes the weight off your spine and stretches the joints just a little but enough to stop the pinch.
There are a few exercises like right knee left shoulder but only a few days after the initial injury as the tissue needs time to relax and the swelling to subside. Voltarin is pretty good too.
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Yeah pokey, I've made a gantry for lifting truck body's and engines and thought about hanging upside down from that to release the pressure, but knowing my luck I'd get stuck upside down in the shed and no one would hear me yelling lol jimson
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Yeah pokey, I've made a gantry for lifting truck body's and engines and thought about hanging upside down from that to release the pressure, but knowing my luck I'd get stuck upside down in the shed and no one would hear me yelling lol jimson
I was thinking about hanging upside down, read that blood rush to the brain is not so good for you. I bought a back stretcher off ebay, cost about $100 from China, seems to help.
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anyone who is a coffee aholic and a smoker should NOT hang upside down...my relo is and last time he bent over to pull a weed from his garden he had a minor stroke and is now partially blind and struggles to enunciate. this is the 5th "minor stroke" he has had...
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John was that back stretcher a traction type stretcher?about 800nm and 0 to 220mm stroke?
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https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Body-Stretching-Device-Lumbar-Spine-Traction-Bed-Cervical-Spine-Therapy-Massage/382441340558?hash=item590b47be8e:g:hd8AAOSwadda2a2x
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Yeah, I'm so tight I have compression seizures lol jimson
throw in a six pack when your up for it and you'll never get Sciatic again.
True believer in core stability and agree on the stretches ie yoga.
Good luck with the rehab Jimson
from over 50's club. :)
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The stretching is good as it helps any tight muscle.
Has anyone tried acupuncture? (not dry needling, that's different)
I just visited an acupuncturist who fixed my tight back muscles in one day! He said with sciatica, the problems are often not in the spine but in the bum muscles. He told me a story of a guy he fixed who still had sciatic nerve pain after 5 years of seeing heaps of specialists and having operations on his spine to ease the nerve. The problem was in his bum.
One of the many things acupuncture can do is release tension deep down in knotted up muscles. From now on before going the massage route I will be giving acupuncture a go, and its a whole lot less painful than deep tissue massage!
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You know its strange, we or see cats and dogs even birds stretching out. But I had to pay $73 to hear I should be doing it.I think its time to be more body aware and maybe mentally aware of my ownself. jimson
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remember the ïsometrics" body building muscle works..tensing and releasing muscles..was big before "Gyms"became a word...they are now realising they actually work and are a lot cheaper than "Gyms"..
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The first time I heard about isometric and isotonic exercises was when I bought a " bull worker" or was it a bullbar ? from mick simmons in bankstown square around 1978. I should have asked for a refund!
My physio says the idea with inversion tables is to not invert more than around 45' and then after about 20 seconds take yourself back to horizontal for the same time before going into the upright/ where you started position. Theory being that you don't need full vert to get the effect of gravity on your spine and the supporting muscles can over react and tighten if you do and also they react better if you give them time to adjust at the horizontal position on the way back up. He said these tables are really popular with jockeys