Back problems and remedies?

Just a little clarification on this post:

a lot of the back pain we experience is caused by an imbalance between the lower back muscles and the hip flexors. In the sitting position, the flexors stay contracted for a long period of time while the gluteus and lower back muscles are stay stretched. The flexors will begin to overpower the lower back muscles (think shin splint, but higher). You need to stretch out the hip flexors and get them to relax.

Secondly, the lumbar belt, if your back is bothering you, wear it while working. Do not wear it while driving. Why? Let me explain. Your skeletal muscles have some really big muscles and some really small muscles. The smaller muscles act as stabilizers and aid in balance and supporting the bigger muscles. Wearing that support belt too long will take work away from all the little stabilizer muscles. And that's the exact opposite of what you want to do (think free weights in comparison to the machine weights. The bigger muscles will lift the weight, but the stabilizers is what you have to train in order to balance and control the weights.)

do a YouTube search for stretching tight hip flexors for how to's

 

Two back surgeries for me. Have to stretch daily or it gets real sore. I still have pain in my left leg. Oh we'll could be worse.

 

Do more stretching & walking. For $49/month you can go to a place called The Joint. You can get 4 adjustments per month for that $49. I go once a week and rarely have any more problems.

 

The joint? Hmm hope dot doesn't make you test It's legal in Colorado I think

 

You mentioned bumps in the road hurt. Do you set the seat to rock back and forth (railroad setting)? I did that and it helped quite a bit.

I have a bum knee and 30+ years of limping has caused lower back issues.

 

I got all of that and then some more! in 2005 I was driving local under CDL weights and I was delivering a stack of Roof Plywood or whatever they call that Shtuff, and it was about 4 A.M. and I was dropping this stack off my truck when I was rocking the flatbed I was driving it fell off in a haw instead of the HEE Movement meaning it was not dropped where it should have been and in the street was unacceptable so I got my gloves on and went after it! Imoved it several inches over about a 20 minute time, and the last shove I get my gloves caught under the wood and my legs went straight, I heard a stretch and felt a pull, I rolled up my straps and went to my next stop, which was about 25 minutes away, I got there and stepped out of the truck and I hit the ground, The construction foreman was me fall and came to check on me, I unloaded there and went back, to make a story short I pulled both Lumbar and it hurt like heck, I was sent to the Dr. and they did Xrays and "Rehabed" me and then I went back to work only to be fired! But now I have a forward leaning stance that looks worse then it feels.

I guess I'm saying all of this to say, I go to a Chiropractor as well and this one has not been able to keep this curvature from occurring?? So if you are young dumb and you know the rest of it, and you think you pee vinegar, and eat Pizza for Breakfast! don't think that, So did I, and now I have the bad back everyone had armed me about! Stay safe! and by the way! I don't sit on my wallet!

 

I think that was a common pain that you will feel if you are a trucker right?

 

I wore blue jeans pretty much my whole life. Now that I have two bad discs I can't where them anymore. They aggravate my injury more than any other type of pants. You might go for something a lighter weight and loose fitting. Blue Jeans tend to push on your lower spine at the waist line when you sit down.

Chiropractors work in stages on new patients. You just don't go for one visit. You can expect at least three visits. After one broke a woman's neck and killed her I'm kind of leary of them.
If you have pain in the tail bone area and shooting down one leg I can almost guarantee you have more serious problems and need a MRI done.

Yep all people with back injuries walk that walk. I had others tell me the same thing. It's an inside club membership thing. The secret handshake... the secret walk.

Most new truckers get the sore tailbone until they build up a tolerance to long trips. But then there are the issues of a lifetime of bouncing up and down. The human body wasn't built for repeated vibration. That's one reason equipment operators don't live long lives. The older you get the more them discs compress and the shorter you get. Eventually the compressed disc start pushing on the Sciatic nerve. L3- L5 is the common area in your lower back as it takes the brunt of the punishment.

Modern medicine is getting better but there a bunch of money rackets out there. Your pain equals money in their pocket.

luvtotruck if you ever have a serious muscle pull it can take years to heal. I had one when I was younger a muscle ripped and balled up on my middle back. You could see it. I had to go through 3 weeks of physical therapy but I kept injuring that same muscle not as bad but for about 5 years it was susceptible to injury.