just want to share my experiences, fixes, and hope to hear yours. history first.
im 6' and have always been thin. not necessarily in shape, but always skinny. nicknames like "woody" "slim" "bones" etc. im up to 165#s empty right now.
hurt my back at age 18. couldn't walk hardly for 3 days. scared the heck out of me. never forget actually tearing up trying to get in my truck.
was fairly carefull after that. i knew when i was "pushing it" and was careful anytime i felt "stiff".
i dont remember any debilitating pain again until i was 25, when i went in stiff, got on my tip-toes to put bolts in a valve, and WHAM! i got hit hard! i wanted to fall but had nowhere to go, cause i was in a scissor lift. helper could see it in my face, he took the lift down, un-hooked me, and said it was break time. i was trying to choke down the worst pain i've ever felt along with a sandwich when my boss sent me home. was out for 4 days.
very careful after that. always asking for help with moderate lifts, and life was good. . . . .till i got my dirt bike last december
i have rode balls to the wall out in the desert, and came out with jello arms, and concrete hands. life was good, till a couple months ago. i was on some family property, just a mess around day on the bike, went to pop a wheelie over an imaginary log, and that familiar WHAM! happened again. i loaded the bike and drove home in that familiar position of propping myself up off the seat while my back was threatening to crush myself like a tin can.
happened again, same circumstance, a few weeks later.
happened again, last weekend, while camping, for no apparent reason.
im 6' and have always been thin. not necessarily in shape, but always skinny. nicknames like "woody" "slim" "bones" etc. im up to 165#s empty right now.
hurt my back at age 18. couldn't walk hardly for 3 days. scared the heck out of me. never forget actually tearing up trying to get in my truck.
was fairly carefull after that. i knew when i was "pushing it" and was careful anytime i felt "stiff".
i dont remember any debilitating pain again until i was 25, when i went in stiff, got on my tip-toes to put bolts in a valve, and WHAM! i got hit hard! i wanted to fall but had nowhere to go, cause i was in a scissor lift. helper could see it in my face, he took the lift down, un-hooked me, and said it was break time. i was trying to choke down the worst pain i've ever felt along with a sandwich when my boss sent me home. was out for 4 days.
very careful after that. always asking for help with moderate lifts, and life was good. . . . .till i got my dirt bike last december
i have rode balls to the wall out in the desert, and came out with jello arms, and concrete hands. life was good, till a couple months ago. i was on some family property, just a mess around day on the bike, went to pop a wheelie over an imaginary log, and that familiar WHAM! happened again. i loaded the bike and drove home in that familiar position of propping myself up off the seat while my back was threatening to crush myself like a tin can.
happened again, same circumstance, a few weeks later.
happened again, last weekend, while camping, for no apparent reason.
