Just wondering if you an answer a question. My father has had an accident where he damage his lower back and spine in particular. It's pretty difficult for me to explain, but it seems to have moved caused some permanent damage. He's seen quite a few doctors and special clinics for help but no luck so far. Usually it helps when he gets medicated, but just wondering if there are any exercises or alternatives. Sorry that this is rather vague, but it couldn't be described as a discus prolapse and I don't think they could give a specific diagnosis.
Has he visited a PT or chiro who have tried soft tissue work and rehab exercise?
How long has this gone on? Does he have a proper diagnosis?
He doesn't have a firm diagnosis except that he broke a few of his lower spinalcords (?) so that they are pushed a few centimeters to the side.
He's had this for a very long time (5-7 years after falling on a concrete floor in a factory), and I don't think the doctors had any idea how to treat it. He hasn't tried a PT or chiro with soft tissue/rehab exercises.
sick numbers nazarene! id love to see the vid. what your snatch at? BTW turns out I have bones of steel...doc said it was definitely fractured and then looked at the x ray and turns out its not broken! just real bad sort tissue bruising. I'm on crutches, motrin and hard core RICE until Saturday then I'm taping the shit out of it and playing on it because its fucking nationals. SO happy nothing is broken! but I don't know how I'm going to make it a week without squatting or oly lifting
Good to know that nothing is proken. hardcore recovery initiated!
protip: take the motrin/ibuprofen regularly, all the days before the nationals. always worked better on me to take it continiously (2-3 times/day and for 7-10 days) if I have a serious injury (that can be cured by it). How much were you supposed to take?
How much fish oil are you guys taking? I've been reading on Robb Wolf and elsewhere that too much omega-3 can be a bad thing in terms of general health. Before I was taking 8+ gelcaps daily but now I've scaled it back to about 2 grams of total omega-3's daily.
On April 11 2011 08:42 Ingenol wrote: How much fish oil are you guys taking? I've been reading on Robb Wolf and elsewhere that too much omega-3 can be a bad thing in terms of general health. Before I was taking 8+ gelcaps daily but now I've scaled it back to about 2 grams of total omega-3's daily.
I can tell if i nick myself and bleed a lot if I take too much.
Similarly, the skin around my fingernails and toes grows nicely while I'm taking enough fish oil and doesn't if I'm not
Those are some "general" anecdotal indicators if you care. Anything up to .5g/10 lbs is fine (know bunches of people on this dose) so you're way under that.
Just wondering if you an answer a question. My father has had an accident where he damage his lower back and spine in particular. It's pretty difficult for me to explain, but it seems to have moved caused some permanent damage. He's seen quite a few doctors and special clinics for help but no luck so far. Usually it helps when he gets medicated, but just wondering if there are any exercises or alternatives. Sorry that this is rather vague, but it couldn't be described as a discus prolapse and I don't think they could give a specific diagnosis.
Has he visited a PT or chiro who have tried soft tissue work and rehab exercise?
How long has this gone on? Does he have a proper diagnosis?
He doesn't have a firm diagnosis except that he broke a few of his lower spinalcords (?) so that they are pushed a few centimeters to the side.
He's had this for a very long time (5-7 years after falling on a concrete floor in a factory), and I don't think the doctors had any idea how to treat it. He hasn't tried a PT or chiro with soft tissue/rehab exercises.
Yeah, it may be a good idea to see one.
Although I don't know the quality of people you got over there in your country...
People live pain free and exercise all the time with messed up stuff like severe scoliosis et al so it's certainly possible to live without pain, lift weights, and function at a high level of ability even with what some people would say are catastrophic injuries.
Decaf, your injury reminds me of when I had deep tissue bruises during Junior yr HS soccer season (ankle sandwiched b/w our keeper and opponent forward's shot foot after I cleared the ball) X__X.
I played through 2 months of massive taping + pain killers, probably wasn't the best idea since I now have definitely reduced range of motion on my right ankle.
Then again playing through agonizing pain does make me proud looking back...
On April 11 2011 03:34 AoN.DimSum wrote: rosa, If you can drop them, they are probably bumpers lol. Maybe the bumpers say uesaka? One of the biggest suppliers in equipment.
Yeah I looked up some pictures of bumper plates and it seems that mine are fine to drop. The platform is also made of some special kind of mat (possibly rubber?) which helps absorb the abuse. I'm just gonna drop them from now on.
The reason why I put front squat ahead of clean and jerk was to warm my inflexible shoulders up. I can rest the bar on my shoulders pretty well so far, but not as well as I'd like. Would you say that warming my shoulders up with front squat and then moving into C&J is better, or warming my shoulders up with C&J and then moving into front squat is?
I usually warm up my shoulders separately for like 10 minutes before my oly lifts
On April 11 2011 13:22 thedeadhaji wrote: Decaf, your injury reminds me of when I had deep tissue bruises during Junior yr HS soccer season (ankle sandwiched b/w our keeper and opponent forward's shot foot after I cleared the ball) X__X.
I played through 2 months of massive taping + pain killers, probably wasn't the best idea since I now have definitely reduced range of motion on my right ankle.
Then again playing through agonizing pain does make me proud looking back...
GL at nationals!
Yeah i wouldn't be able to live down skipping nationals because of pain...
On April 11 2011 07:06 decafchicken wrote: sick numbers nazarene! id love to see the vid. what your snatch at?
I'd like to show you guys the video, but I don't know how! It's 'private' on facebook...
Snatch is at 85 kg.
I'll take a break from olympic lifting now though, there's lots of other lifts I need to work on. Next months will consist heavy of deadlifting, overhead/front/back squatting so I can get those numbers up to a respectable level :-D
EPT
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