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Has anyone had PT for low back pain and did it help?
I am currently in PT but thinking I have the wrong therapist. She noted my scoliosis curve and is making a big deal of it, without concentrating on exercises for the lumbar region. I cannot get my curve to change now, I am 82. I want exercises to help the low back pain, which I find on Youtube, not in PT. I am getting ready to quit PT, but feel like I have to give it more time. Who else has done PT for low back pain?
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Yeah when you have knots in a muscle group, you know it. I'm glad you found a resolution. PTs are worth their weight in platinum.
I was surprised at the diagnosis from the MRI - tight lower back muscles? I'm not even sure I know how a radiologist sees that, but apparently that was true because the stretching I described fixed the cramping.
Good for you for working with a PT. I have a personal trainer at the gym, I see him for 45 minutes twice a week. I've had plenty of ailments and surgeries since starting to work with him, and he always has ways to work with or around a problem area.
And he has shown me so many different ways to perform an exercise to benefit a particular part of my body. I would never figure out these things myself. They are a bit on the expensive side, but it's some of the best money my wife and I spend. And it's for the good of our health, which has no price.
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I'm going to have to try your chair stretch! Thanks for explaining it!
You're very welcome. I was surprised to learn that a tight lower back could trigger bursts of sciatica-pinched pain. So anyway you can stretch your lower back safely might relieve some of this pressure on the sciatic nerve.
I can’t find the chair stretch described. Would someone mind resharing it? That reminded me that tight hamstrings can also cause low back pain/tightness. Gee, maybe I should try it some time 😂. as was said, I can go to PT, but it is a lifelong program to keep things going, for me.
Like Joe, I have a trainer, twice a week. Very knowledgable and helps so much with core and knows a work-around for what seems like any ache or pain. It is pricy, but as long as I can afford to do it, I will.
I had PT for chronic back pain. Didn't really help. I have had the for 3 years. MRIs of thoracic and lumbar. 3 back surgeons all say back bone looks great. Have no idea why I have back pain. Have had acupuncture, spinal Decompression, epidural, and ablation. Nothing has helped. My Oncologist is keeping an eye on my Myeloma and I wonder if this is cause of back pain. Surgeons don't even think of this or ask about it.