Best way to relieve neck pain?
I've been learning how to wakeboard this summer and Ive had quite a few hard falls plus ive been tubing lots too. now my neck really hurts and my lower back on the sides. Whats the best way to make the soreness better: heat or ice? I use pain killers during the day but at night i sleep with one of those neck pillows. Also: Is it normal to be in pain in your lower back during wakeboarding, like when your being pulled by the boat? because after a minute i start to really hurt.
How to relieve back pain?
Heat, not ice. If your muscles are tense, ice will just make it worse. Get a electric blanket or something pretty warm to place on your back. Lay on your belly and have the warm blanket or hot pack sit on your back 15-30 minutes. You can then apply icyhot/biofreeze/ and I suggest biofreeze for added comfort. DO NOT apply too much. Massages after heating may also help.
Random bursts of sharp lower back pain in what feels like base of spine, cause?
Well I can help you with your lower back problems since I have been dealing with back problems for 4 years and I'm 26 y/o male. Is your sharp pain strictly in your back? Does it go down in to you buttocks region or part of your legs? If you have pain that goes in to your legs, its a bulge disc or herniated disc. The difference is the bulge disc has yet to collapse the fluid from the spine, so the herniated disc is the worse because it can strictly compress on the nerve in that region which will cause sharp nerve pain down certain part of your leg. Like me for instance, I have L4-L5, L5-S1 disc herniation, where my pain goes down the outside of my legs, and its very excruiciating. But if you do not have any pain going down your legs, then its only muscles, but you need to take it easy, because if you don't you are putting more pressure on your discs, and it will lead to bulging disc or herniated disc. You don't want that, because you will live with that for the rest of your life. I had L5-S1 discectomy, and it did not help at all. Now my neuro surgeon wanted to fuse the L4-L5, and L5-S1 disc with 6 metal screws, and two metal rods but I did not do the surgery due to it was a 50/50 chance it can get worse. So I live with my back pain, and it's hard because you make the vicodins, the percocets, prednizone meds habit. Those meds can ruin your liver but are the only meds that really help the back. You can try neurontin, but for me I am allergic to it. Best result to see if you have an herniated disc is an MRI, or a discogram. And if you have a discrogram done, be prepared for the longest 40 minutes excruicating pain of your life. They have to inject really big needles into your disc, and they can only numb your skin, and cannot give you any kind of pain meds or sedative during it so they know exactly where you are hurting in the disc space. But once they are done, they will dope you up pretty well, but during the procedure, it was the worse pain ever. So if your back does not get better, and you get leg pain, you need to see your PCP immediately to get an MRI done. Good luck with that, I hope you didn't do what I did, because if so, it's with you forever unless they come out with some good treatment for it in the future.
Lower back pain from squats?
I hurt my back a couple of years ago doing squats because I was going to fast. The pain was off and on until one day in the summer when I was doing a toe touch and the injury came back much worse. It felt like a pop and I could barely walk. I immediately visited the chiropractor and over the next ten weeks thought the problem was solved. The injury eventually came back and it makes it impossible to do any stretches or activities where I am bent over such as shoveling dirt or doing to touches this is a major problem because I play football. I went back to the chiropractor for more treatment but it did not help. I can't afford to keep jumping around looking for a cure. The symptoms are a sharp sudden pain right in my spine above my tailbone. Maybe it could be some kind of pinched nerve? Overtime I have noticed a difference in my physical build from what I think is a result of the injury. I used to have perfectly lined up abs but now one side has stayed the same while the other has become smaller and shifted to make them uneven and lopsided. If anyone knows what the problem might be and if there is anyway to fix it I would appreciate it.