BS: Back problems - please give weird help

Subject: RE: BS: Back problems - please give wierd help
From: MMario
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 12:42 PM

see a doctor or a chiropractor, or at minimum a good, licensed masseuse.

Subject: RE: BS: Back problems - please give wierd help
From: Paul Burke
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 12:37 PM

See the doctor. A friend who stayed with us once woke in the night screaming in agony with a pain in his back. We were so concerned that we called an emergency ambulance. The ambulanceman looked at him, manipulated his back forcefully for a few moments, and cured the probem- a trapped nerve. Then went off to a real emergency, leaving us feeling idiots.

Subject: RE: BS: Back problems - please give wierd help
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 12:32 PM

A new mattress? A trip to an MD?

Subject: RE: BS: Back problems - please give wierd help
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 12:29 PM

Aquatic exercise-- stretching sloooowwwwllllyyyy in warm water (84 degrees or warmer, hot tub best).

~Susan

Subject: BS: Back problems - give 'alternative' help
From: GUEST,Ian Pittaway
Date: 02 Oct 06 - 12:25 PM

I am in complete agony much of the time with my back. I have no idea why, but when I wake up in the morning I am in an L shape and it takes me up to an hour to straighten out and stand up. It's excruciating. Walking is reaaaaaaaaallly painful. I therefore have some time to pass. Usually I have a few kind-hearted and well-intentioned friends who come up with all kinds of 'alternative' remedies, which I generally don't think much of (because they're untested, nonsensical and quite mad). But now it occurs to me that this is just the kind of help I need to laugh away the pain. Any wierd, 'alternative' remedies, anyone?