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Back pain

THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny.Real shiny.Registered User regular
edited February 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
I pulled my back muscle yesterday carrying a door panel up some stairs and ever since then it's been hurting.

I relaxed after work yesterday with no heavy lifting, took three ibuprofin, and slept on a heating blanket.

Woke up today, took three ibuprofin this morning and went to work (cause I just can't miss work).

Any remedies for healing faster?

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  • SpacemilkSpacemilk Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Look up some gentle back stretches; don't do anything extreme because that's not going to promote healing.

    Otherwise it's just time. You could try taking vitamins and eating healthy good foods but really you're just waiting on your body to heal it. In my experiences, it can take one to two weeks for a muscle to fully heal and you need to make sure you aren't straining it or it'll just take longer. So no heavy lifting for a while!

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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    A warm bath will ease the muscles. Other than pain tablets and keeping the muscles moving, there's not much else you can do than wait.

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  • SliderSlider Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Keep it loose. Use heat. Stretch. Use ice. Take it easy. Repeat.

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  • CorvusCorvus . VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Liiya wrote: »
    A warm bath will ease the muscles. Other than pain tablets and keeping the muscles moving, there's not much else you can do than wait.

    Epsom salts in your bath could help with the pain, if it is muscle pain.

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  • SkySky Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    For back pain, try to do some sit-ups and crunches, or other abdominal stretches.

    I think.

    The reason being that your abs take strain/pressure off your back. But it will hurt like hell to exercise those muscles. (I know from experience.) But once you do it, hopefully that will start to cure the pain, and by next morning, it should be less. Hopefully.

    Otherwise, go to acupuncture.

    Or find someone who knows reiki. ;)

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  • The Black HunterThe Black Hunter The key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple, unimpeachable reason to existRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I did that once then had a repeat about a month later

    a year later and I still feel it when I lift things


    Don't do what sky says for relief, and if you really pulled your back, you'll know you couldn't if you wanted to

    stand up straight, and flop your head, and very gently loll it in circles, around and around, very softly without force.


    once you have done that for a while, hands over your head arms straight, and very slowly bend to the side, that weird thing the swimmers do.
    again, very softly, ease the muscles back into movement

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