All I did was put the phone down and then around... Guess talking on the phone is more dangerous than I had realised!Why is it the back goes when you're doing the most innocuous of things? Mine went a while back when I went to pick up some little a customer had thrown on our floor at work.
GWS!
Makes it worse, did you not suggest this to me when I hurt my back??Get ya self down the local pool, and swim for about 20 mins, you might find that helps.
I've done my back in fitting a new rear rack to the winter commute MTB. It just went pop as I stood up to get my panniers.
Blooming killing me, I slept on the floor last night and I still can't stand up straight for the discomfort. Not being helped by crawling round like a ruptured sloth on the floor at work today refillting a couple of broken computers for people.
Also perfect timing for my most of next week off work too, not a happy bunny.
I think it is entirely dependant on which way the disk had slipped. For me, it is a roll into a ball that is needed and when in bed, keeping my knees raised so that my pelvis is tilted round forwards not backwards. That also eases some of my pain.It worked for me at the time, but if you say current thinking is to avoid it then I'll stop recommending it. I'm very lucky that I no longer suffer the agony of back pain, but of course each case is down to its own unique cause. Thanks for the heads up.
This ^^^^^^ , I.C.E. & Ibuprofen - then ring your GP / physio direct if you have itMcKenzie's "first aid position" is a good starter to try and get your back in the right position. I tweaked something a few years ago and found that lying face down on the floor and gradually raising your shoulders/chest off the floor, first onto your elbows, then into a sort of press up position, all the time pushing your gut into the floor really helps. It helps if you can take some decent painkillers like cocodamol to help you relax, and welcome the initial pain which will subside as you get the small of your back into the proper shape again. Also, when sitting, roll up a towel and put it in the small of your back, backside tight into the back of the seat and shoulders into the back of the upright.
Everyday activities are indeed dangerous.
A few years ago now (back when the C+ forum was still a thing, and CC, well, wasn't) I did 50 hilly and fastish miles with nary a problem.
Had a bath later on, slipped while getting out and dislocated my shoulder.
Learned my lesson, though. Baths are clearly dangerous and I haven't had one since.
(May contain traces of lie)