I’m researching it right now but my lower back is hurting to a point where slight movement becomes painful if any of you have dealt with this before and have any advice I’d greatly appreciate it thank you
i havent dealt with it but i know it can happen because of poor posture (im gonna guess thats what happened to you because this is the ao forum and everyone is chronically online)
try moving around more, use an ice pack followed by a hot water bottle
Honestly I understand why you guess that but for me I’ve been trying to improve posture, sitting upright, but I think maybe it’s because I’ve been doing a bit of exercise (2 minute plank specifically) so maybe my form is bad there.
I appreciate the advice though brochacho all is welcome
it could be the plank posture then, if you do it wrong you are basically forcing your spine out of alignment and placing heavy stress on your lower back joints and discs
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Yeah that’s what I’ve been thinking, problem is that I’m trying to do it better but I can’t see it from a first person point of view and I only have a digital camera (not a phone just a camera) that won’t have enough space to actually view it, I did a 2 minute plank every night so I think I’ll lay off on that until a week and check if my form is actually correct
I just wait it out tbh, probably try to use proper posture when lifting heavy things
Sit up straight you scrub
Stop slouching
Spine parallel to the back of the chair
I already said my posture isn’t the problem, I sit upright and straight every time I sit down unlike some of you folks that have horrid posture,
In that case, try different positions that hurt that specific area and stay in said position until your pain tolerance reaches the point of it not being a problem
Yeah you see what you’ve just done there is achieved something known as the “Plank Position” Something I do for 2 minutes every day that causes pain to basically every muscle in the body if done correctly, if done incorrectly (Which is what I believe I’ve done) you just get the pain without results
I love planking
My record is two minutes 30 seconds
I did not know there was a wrong way to do it tho, which concerns me
Go to a doctor
Ay good time, I’m trying to do a 2 minute one every night and then advance, the mentality of the plank is the best thing about it, not just the benefits.
There’s loads of wrong ways to do it and doing it wrong can end up in back problems/pains like I have. I recommend watching a few videos from REAL health professionals and not just some guys on the internet but actual qualified people, for example this, record yourself doing it to make sure it’s correct, you don’t want to be too low or too high. And remember this, if you feel less pain the way you’re doing it, you’re doing it wrong.
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Break your spine, instant pain relief
Just ripped out my nervous system and that was apparently the problem, all around the advice in this thread wasn’t useful to me but maybe useful to others in the case of this happening to another person, never take painkillers kids.
have you tried ripping out your nervous system? that usually does the trick
oh yeah
Don’t do drugs, kids. If you take painkillers without a prescription, God will personally intervene by making you shit out your spinal cord.
I love how nobody is able to unironically respond to this with their own anecdote or advice because all AO players are hunched banana-style in their gaming caves
(this might not apply to you scoobert)
the thing that contributes the most to back pain in my experience is staying in one position while sitting. i switch up my posture every 20 minutes or so and i havent gotten back pain in a while.