:( terrible time of year to have a bad back:realmad:
I have a job to get out and I am laying down with heat and ice and resting my lower back. I can't even stretch it, can't stand up or walk :bsod: :mad:
I need to take better care of my body I guess

this sux

Sorry to hear that Bruce... Really Hate to tell you this..but.. it's a downhill slide on the aches and pains.. and back pain (which sux).. well, once you have it.. it comes and goes...:doh:

U gonna stick to the ditch, (the place ya can catch fish), or R U gonna try the sand (fishless---for now) again anytime soon?... :devil2: .. :soon:..

i can feel your pain ..
minr started 2 weeks ago , it was soo bad , i had to have my wife drive mr to the chiropactor ..
come to findout i had a kidnry infection .....
still sore, but gettin better

Slip,like Karl says, it comes and goes along with the age thing. :(

Try your stretching before you get out of bed in the morning,
sometimes helps.

Raven can help ya. :)

My back is ruined, but I will wheel myself down to the fishin' hole as long as I have a breath left in me.

I hear ya Bruce, it sux. Hope you feel better soon.:kewl:

Bruce, see a doc if you can. I have problems all the time. Some times a hight dose of anit-inflamatry drugs will heal it up quickly. I've been debating about seeing a chiroprator. Getting out out bed every morning is painful.

'course.. repeatedly throwing a half a pound of lead at the end of a telephone pole at 200 mph across a canal... might take a toll...;)

sometimes you can see a chiropractor and
get straightened out... after an adjustment

slip, this is how you can do it yourself...

you lay on the (carpeted)floor....or preferably on a pad...
on your back.....

then you slowly cross one (right)leg over to one side
while you try and reach with your (left) arm to the
other (opposite) side...
and do it both ways until you find
that hot spot...where ya can't move or git there....
without making the pain worse....

thats your present range of motion....and you slowly
try to approach that unreachable territory and you might
suddenly feel something pop back into place....

the best therapy though is to use hydrotherapy ...stretching
in the shower....trying to touch your toes (very slowly)

eventually you can teach yourself
how to do self -chiropracting...
kinda like a combination lock....
you can find a way to dial your own
combination after experimenting....

hope you feel better soon...

That sucks Slip...my back is junk right now from working and fishing too much!!! So I am defferring any more work for a week and a half so I can focus on fishing...and resting my back!!!:rotf2:

Your backresting again BF. :huh: Good excuse as any. :hihi:

I feel your pain Slip...I compressed two discs jumping the bike over the summer...still in pain :wall:

I hear ya Bruce....I feel like I am 90 right now.....:wall:

anytime i hurt my back.....
and thats in the hundreds of times now

i always up my vitamin E suppliments
like i'll take 5 400 units at a time...
because E governs your muscles health

and the back has the most muscle layers

it really helps....trust me on that...

the thing that screws ya up ...is you end up
altering your posture to keep from having pain
and breaking out of that favoring ...change.

if you can get to a jacuzzi .....go for it!

wheat germ, sunflower seeds, pine nuts, sun-dried tomatoes and almonds and avocado to name a few :think:

got it too ... feel like fulcrum is lower back ..casting and fighting fish . Ya get no sympathy when you tell people your back is junk from fishing too much.... No Compassion ,,,, mans inhumanity to man .. :uhuh:

Take 2 40's and call in sick in the morning!!!:drool: :uhuh:

I've posted some stuff about chiropractors in the past - do a search w/ my username (here & SOL).

I would have done a lot of things I would have seriously regreted IF it hadn't been for the chiropractor IMHO. I go once a week now and i wish I could make the time to go twice a week!

Many have wellness plans where you pay a flat rate/month and you can go one twice a DAY if you wanted to when they are open and it is the same charge if you were to go just once/week. :)

Now a days when my back does act up - generally it is STRESS related. :(

Take it easy - old injuries compound over time.... the best you can do now is stop it from getting worse, Bruce. If you want to talk more about it shoot me a pm and I call ya on my cell.