Sports Massage/Osteopathy

[Slick]

I've had the usual back and muscle problems that comes with 30 years or more of abuse and I've been visiting a myriad of back crackers wether it's Osteopaths or chiropractors which has had varying degrees of success but it has kept me away from the doc and I've never ever felt that any tablets or other medicines have ever done me any good.

Long story as to why, but I had my first sports massage today from quite a small lady with hands and fingers as strong as an Ox (although how strong are Ox fingers, I don't know). I reckon I was pretty much on 100% of my pain threshold as she tried to get my calf muscle to relax and I nearly went through the roof when she found a groin problem.. I'm also still struggling to walk right as I feel bruised to the bone but boy did it feel good when I got out and I learned a couple of stretches to try and make sure I don't just end up as bad as ever.

I just wondered what everyone else's experience was of the differences between all 3 if any?

 

[fossyant]

Stretches and sports massages here on regular basis.

 

[vickster]

Physio and sports massages as needed

Prepare to be sore for a few days. Drink lots of water this evening and apply heat to treated areas/take a bath

 

[Slick]

I do have a foam roller but I usually get bored before it does any good. I also try and stretch when I can but as before, I never persevere long enough to make any kind of a difference. I think I'll be trying to get another appointment as soon as the pain wears off.

 

[vickster]

Try going once a week for a month

 

[Slick]

Try going once a week for a month

Certainly worth a shot, hopefully it will make a difference.

 

[Milkfloat]

Wife first got me a sports massage a few years ago as a treat and to try and relieve some back pain I always suffered with. I envisaged some soft music and a relaxing massage allowing me to drift off to sleep. The reality was very different. I was a challenge, the tightest lower back and calf muscles she had even seen, the result bruises and the inability for the next few days to get down the stairs without crying.

Since then, I have been back many times to try and avoid a back operation, which eventually I had to have about 3 years ago, now I go back quarterly for a top up and to be told off.

 

[Slick]

Wife first got me a sports massage a few years ago as a treat and to try and relieve some back pain I always suffered with. I envisaged some soft music and a relaxing massage allowing me to drift off to sleep. The reality was very different. I was a challenge, the tightest lower back and calf muscles she had even seen, the result bruises and the inability for the next few days to get down the stairs without crying.

Since then, I have been back many times to try and avoid a back operation, which eventually I had to have about 3 years ago, now I go back quarterly for a top up and to be told off.

Pretty much matched my expectations and results. Hopefully I'll be able to avoid the op though.

 

[vickster]

What's actually wrong with your back? Have you had an MRI and specialist diagnosis?

 

[Slick]

What's actually wrong with your back? Have you had an MRI and specialist diagnosis?

No. Well not strictly true. On a recent trip to Florida I got a scan which apparently highlighted some issues with my C spine but I really just wanted sorted and when I took the images back home my usual guy told me not to worry about it.

I think so many years of doing the hard graft wrong to be honest is just wear and tear.

 

[vickster]

No. Well not strictly true. On a recent trip to Florida I got a scan which apparently highlighted some issues with my C spine but I really just wanted sorted and when I took the images back home my usual guy told me not to worry about it.

I think so many years of doing the hard graft wrong to be honest is just wear and tear.

Add a weekly Pilates class to your routine

 

[Slick]

Add a weekly Pilates class to your routine

Yeah, I know that I really should. Maybe I'll take another look at it.

 

[vickster]

Yeah, I know that I really should. Maybe I'll take another look at it.

Just give it a go. I've recently started (rheumatologist has been nagging me to do it for about a year), it's hard given all my joints are stiff but think it'll help with perseverance (I'll need to get back into it after upcoming knee op)

 

[Slick]

Just give it a go. I've recently started (rheumatologist has been nagging me to do it for about a year), it's hard given all my joints are stiff but think it'll help with perseverance (I'll need to get back into it after upcoming knee op)

I can be guilty of procrastinating a bit but I think I will give it a go in the New Year.

 

[ColinJ]

I can be guilty of procrastinating a bit but I think I will give it a go in the New Year.

I see what you did there ...!

I had a go with one of those foam rollers and the next day my legs looked like someone had taken a baseball bat to them. (I bruise easily these days, probably because I take warfarin.) I gave the roller to a friend.