oh cool, i was supposed to do that for my permanent spinal chord damage thing but quit after 1 session cause everyone there was over 60 years old, first i just succumbed into alcoholism, to avoid chronic pain and all the lifechanging crap etc. but now i'm trying out making my own diet with healthy stuff to see how that works, nobody ever even mentioned diet while i was getting back pain classes so i figure that's probably what'll work in the long run
Slow and steady wins the race, please approach the exercise with care and remember warm up is indispensable. Warming up before hand is probably half of the effectiveness in general, it is much like boiling the water before you try and cook the food.
When I found out I had a herniated disc in my neck I was mostly scared of getting those needle injections in there. I didn't have pain, just numbness in my finger, maybe I did have pain, IDK I don't remember feeling it. Whenever my back hurt I would just do a simple stretch bending and touching the floor. That's how the disc in my neck stopped pinching the nerve too, the day or so before I had to meet with the scary surgeon for the first time. He recommended an inversion table to keep my spine decompressed, I hang upside down on it daily and I don't even experience headaches. I do sit ups on it too while hanging upside down, I like the way it makes my spine feel. But I think it depends on the discs that are fucked, an inversion table can do more damage to someone with other disc problems, I'm not sure I think I read that. But if a doctor doesn't recommend something natural like decompression then that doctor is fucked. I think I got lucky with a good doctor, he also recommended a body building book for weight lifting to help strengthen my back too.
Mark Rippetoe is the author of the book. My husband has been into body building for years and when he read the book with me he was also able to increase his strength and amount of weight he was lifting. He got proper shoes for dead lifts too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rippetoe
i should really start looking into some alternative stuff, just been walking around for a year and a half with a leg that constantly feels paralyzed cause some disk is pushed out against a pain nerve but at least the experience of chronic pain has given me some interesting new life perspectives so meh
That's a lower herniated disc in your back, I don't think inversion tables are good for problems in the lower area. Decompression will stretch the spine and stop pinching that nerve that causes numbness, it's a simple fix but I'm not sure how to decompress that safely. I would look up how to decompress the lower spine naturally Elaine. There could be some stretches or maybe the table might work safely for you.
Here's a variety of ways to decompress the back. I guess the inversion table work for sciatica nerve too, lower back. I keep reading that recommendation to talk to a doctor first but at the end of this link it say's who shouldn't try these types of stretches. I personally think the inversion table is the way to do it, it feels strange at first but after a couple times on it the blood in the head weird feeling goes away.
http://www.newhealthadvisor.com/Spinal-D...-Home.html
oh, i've been doing those 3 first and some other yoga stuff for awhile already, you really give up on it quickly though especially since it doesnt seem to do anything, its just pretty serious damage, when the doctor told me she sounded like she was telling me i had cancer or something
Did you have an MRI done and saw the results? What a shitty doctor to make you feel so terrible, she should encourage you that you can overcome it. I completely over came my pinched nerve just by bending forward picking strawberries. My neck was hanging down and I did it for a long enough time for it to decompress on it's own.
Maybe you don't like the things you tried, try other methods until you find something that you feel comfortable doing for at least 5 minutes at a time. You need that time for it to loosen up a bit, I think you can do it, just find something that feels good while you do it. Sometimes I will even lay on my ottoman with my neck hanging over one end and my feet on the ground on the other, I get a nice arch stretch, it's a hurts so good feeling. Or even grabbing an arm of a sofa and pulling back with your behind will give a good stretch.