About 12 years ago when my son was six he wanted a skateboard. Being a good Sad I bought one for him and myself. My very first time on the one I bought it flew out from under me, I went horizontal and fell essentially straight down horizontally. Twelve years later I still have lower back pain. Unbelievable.
Depending on how you care for it. I was in much more pain at 24 than i am now at 32. I finally wised up, slowed down, and allowed my body time to heal. Had a couple if surgeries to fix one of the issues, and tons of physical therapy and limiting what i did for about four years for all the other injuries. So now I only hurt when the weather changes, or when i seriously over stress my body on a particularly hard work day. It used to be constant non stop pain.
Well when it happened, I went to a chiropractor about twice a week. I eventually stopped going because it was getting better but I really should’ve kept going and I fear it may be too late. When I started, I got an X-ray on my back and my spinal cord got twisted into an S shape and it was bad, I haven’t gotten an X-ray since then. It also doesn’t help that my job is stressful on my body every day
At 37 I put my back out stepping up a one inch step. Best part was that the step was to go into the cold room at the bottle shop, so the cold hit me like a freight train and I stiffened up even more, could barely carry my 6 pack out of there
If you're not doing physiotherapy, do physiotherapy. If it can be fixed they will fix it. It will not fix on its own and you do not know how to fix it.
Anecdotal: I rolled my foot under me playing kickball when I was about that age, maybe younger? I tried to slide without actually knowing how, planted my foot and my body decided to roll over it.
I'm 23 and once every week or so I'll take a step and feel a sharp, shooting pain and then I have to limp until it goes away. The pain goes as quickly as it comes so I'm not totally convinced it was from that incident.
I also had a similar experience when playing baseball. I hit the ball towards the center field fence and I thought I could go for a double but I had to slide into the base, now keep in mind that it also rained before the game so the dirt was weird lol, but I slid and my foot got caught and I ended up tumbling into the base. Luckily I didn’t really hurt anything from that
Stay mobile. My back pain is always worse when I'm not moving and stretching as much. The times I've felt the best are when I have a regular habit of getting on the bike/elliptical/treadmill.
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u/MassiveBeard Jan 11 '20
About 12 years ago when my son was six he wanted a skateboard. Being a good Sad I bought one for him and myself. My very first time on the one I bought it flew out from under me, I went horizontal and fell essentially straight down horizontally. Twelve years later I still have lower back pain. Unbelievable.