that was my mum didi

lie on your back and put your knees up to your chest. roll backwards and forwards in a ball. When i pulled my lower back the physio told me to do it. it stretches the muscles pretty well.

I recommend taking a bath with a few drops of lavender oil. I have had multiple back problems throughout my life and have found that this helps more than anything else. It allows your muscles to relax and stops that horrible tightening sensation you get sometimes.

I also recommend going to see a chiropractor if something as simple as picking up a tennis ball has hurt your back. You will likely continue to suffer from innocuous actions every now and then until you heal the problem at source.

So there's plenty to try - thanks for the information gents

It doesn't help that my office chair is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard but there you go.

Do you have an HR deparment? It is their obligation to ensure that you have an acceptable seating arrangement and if your back is hurting sitting at your desk and they are unwilling to do an analysis on your seating posture, you're well within your rights to not sit at your desk at all.

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I'll bet good money that the pain in you lower back actually stems from your hamstring mate.

Rest and look up ergonomics for desk jobs. Try and get some diclofenac from your doctor.

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I know exactly how you feel, I did my back in picking up my cats water dish!!

Lower back pain is a nightmare, but you can't just sit and do nothing, you have to keep moving (unless its too painful). Try light exercises, yoga or pilates; as much as you can manage but nothing too strenuous. If you get pains or numbness in your leg, you may have damaged or pinched a nerve so seek doctors advice. The best painkiller on prescription is dihyracodeine, great stuff, knocks you out for hours!!! But it is addictive.

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We do yes. One of my colleagues says that they take a week to carry out any assessments.

Will send email though.

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certainly will

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cheers for info

what a supportive bunch

Don't lie up. Move around gently. Don't bend down without bending the knees.

Lie on your bed and slowly raise one leg at a time until you feel your pain threshold, then stop. Do this until you feel you can't do it any more.

Also apply one of those wheat socks you heat in the microwave (2-3 mins) and apply to your back (not directly onto skin)

If you don't feel better after a week or so see your GP, you may have slipped a disc.

Is the pain radiating down into your legs???, if it is then you've probably damaged/slipped a disc, if so avoid laying on your back and certainly do not take hot baths. I have 3 degenerative discs in my lower back and have had to alter my life so much to cope with them, if your lucky it's just muscle damage.

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By the way, if the pain does go in to your legs then light excercise, i.e walking is great, got to keep moving, if you must lie then lie on your front with a couple of pillows/cushions under the front of your lower legs, painful at first but it helps with the pain no end.

That's not a bad analogy mr anfield rap.

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'it sounds as if the jam has come out of your doughnut'

He means a slipped disc

As a health care worker I sat through the same course.

Plus it happened to mr wishi many moons ago.

The leg exercises should help in the short term.

He means the fluid come out of the disc.

'He means the fluid come out of the disc'

As in a slipped disc...

If he'd slipped a disk he'd know about it. Cannot be that.

Sort of but slightly different, a slipped disc is where the disc pops out, causes a lot of pain, usually you are bent double or can't move but will eventually pop back in, whereas loss of fluid causes constant pain due to spine pressing on nerves causing severe pain in lower back and in most cases spreads to limbs, i.e.calfs, thighs, this will not right itself as it is due to general wear and tear on the discs, you can only manage it as best as you can. Facet joint injections are one option and initially you feel like a new person but it is basically just a steroid which wears off after a few months, sorry to go on about it but it has affected me for about 15 years now and it's not pleasant.

Get you, Earl Brutus, are you an orthopod or something, or do you subscribe to Gait and Posture journal, you anorak!

'If he'd slipped a disk he'd know about it. Cannot be that.'

Not necessarily. I mean he'd be in a lot of pain, of course, but he's complaining of pain, anyway. When mr wishi had it he wasn't diagnosed until a physio he worked with spotted the signs.

I'm the back pain king.

Backs are difficult to diagnose, anyway.

X-rays, ultrasound and so on, it'd take a while to pin down the cause, and most of the time a GP will say exercise first before the last resort is called for, surgery,