Average recovery time: 36 days
| who | duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ollie | 1 days | Caused I think by lying in the soft chalet bed for 12 hours straight (as I was feeling ill from the night before.) | details |
| mmace | 1 days | details | |
| BazorakcommaJ | 1 days | details | |
| bryant | 1 days | went away by next morning, but i shall be more careful next time and limit the amount of effort i put in. | details |
| Eoin | 1 days | Lay down flat for 3 hours, Voltaren (3 tabs) | details |
| rebeccakr | 1 days | details | |
| Ollie | 2 days | Kept a good posture for the 48 or so hours it took to clear up. I'll stay away from impact training until the weekend, though. | details |
| Wonkey Donkey | 2 days | Try to spend more time stretching, especially after long periods sat in car. i.e. 480miles to night champs in 12hrs, 6 hours to Birmingham plus work. | details |
| Ollie | 2 days | Was careful not to aggravate, and it cleared up as normal after a couple of days. This was not nearly as bad as I've had it in the past. | details |
| Trisportgurl | 2 days | details | |
| mmace | 3 days | details | |
| bigbluemarble | 3 days | Not sciatica. Muscle spasms across lower back. Wondering if it is lasting effects from flubbed epidural in March 2004. | details |
| walk | 3 days | Back stretches every 30', all day, Vit I, and seemed to cure it. Continue the back stretches periodically. | details |
| Jagge | 3 days | details | |
| Tom R | 3 days | rest | details |
| cat | 4 days | details | |
| Janus | 5 days | treat your back very well, and make sre to stretch regularly | details |
| _________ | 5 days | This is fixed by keeping the back mobile. Don't stop running, even if its really slow. | details |
| mortenneve | 5 days | details | |
| Nadim | 5 days | A combination of rest and exercise seemed to help. | details |
| jotaigna | 6 days | as it happened before, lots of rest, withdrew from competition and a series of lower back stretches combined with neurofen plus and voltaren | details |
| kurthu | 6 days | details | |
| bradc | 6 days | Lots of heat, stretching, brufen and mobility work. After three days there was noticeable improvement; by the weekend it felt pretty much OK. | details |
| naomi | 6 days | details | |
| Tooms | 6 days | Lumbar spine 'hinges' instead of curves at L2/L3. Theory is hard ride Tues over loaded the hinge point and there was a minor shift of one of the joints and concurrent severe muscle spasm. | details |
| angelica | 7 days | Just a 'stiff back' like a 'stiff neck'. Time helped it go away - I even ran a race and was okay. | details |
| Norry X-C Loppet | 7 days | solid bed, saty away from squash courts, do high reps in weight room easy runs, stay active, but just ease off everything. It's hard not to test it, but DON'T IT DOESN'T WORK you have done this before!!! Just nice and easy... HEAL | details |
| Evaldas | 7 days | details | |
| Koen | 7 days | details | |
| urthbuoy | 8 days | details | |
| drwill4 | 8 days | Pain still present but reduced. Probably there for life ust like the right side of my back. | details |
| MW | 8 days | details | |
| andyd | 8 days | details | |
| Sid | 8 days | Do not do core workout two days in a row. | details |
| Sony | 9 days | details | |
| Nadim | 9 days | I waited it out though exercise did seem to have a positive correlation. It just wasn't immediate. Also odd was the migration of the pain from the base of the spine to my hip and down into my left leg.. | details |
| leper | 10 days | only taking it easy, lying down a lot, and one of those velcro back brace things seemed to help. | details |
| dcady | 10 days | Slowly got better by itself. No docs. Took max dose of ibuprofen for first several days. Tried heating pad a couple of times and that seemed to help a lot. Should have used it sooner and more often. | details |
| mmace | 10 days | details | |
| jima | 11 days | Take it easy. Dr. prescribed a steriod and muscle relaxant. | details |
| Russell | 11 days | details | |
| kurthu | 11 days | details | |
| Ursa | 11 days | i think it is better because i did some exercises for those muscules. | details |
| Sid | 11 days | Not a major problem but this occurence suggests a muscle imbalance. Have not been doing core workouts for the week. | details |
| GPS | 11 days | details | |
| Cos | 11 days | details | |
| Danger | 11 days | details | |
| Sid | 12 days | Strengthen core to help back take the abuse. | details |
| szurcher | 14 days | Rest as a first measure. The hip belt that I received from the PT helped stabilize the pelvis, relieved a lot of the pain and helped the joint heal. Worked wonders. | details |
| Charlie | 14 days | Took it easy - got some very helpful PT, the highlight of which was electrostimulation - felt like a hive of yellow jackets, but allowed me to straighten up and I didn't need a cane again after one treatment. | details |
| ebuckley | 15 days | details | |
| Fumle | 15 days | etter 3 ganger hos kiropraktos va alt bare fryd og gammen igjen:) | details |
| drwill4 | 15 days | Time.... stopped any working out completely for 4 days then came back very gently. I can still feel the area but it doesn't hurt. | details |
| Bomb | 15 days | details | |
| 'Bent | 16 days | Accupuncture with electrostim when worst, then chiro and lots of stretching, espec. psoas. May be related to lumbar support issues on 'bent. It was up and down, so I took 5 days fully off everything but balance and stretching. | details |
| Jagge | 19 days | details | |
| ne | 19 days | No real idea of the cause or the resolution. Short runs and runs with the Frees seem to help....? I am sure the coming weekend of hard running will kill me. | details |
| Sherpa | 19 days | Not sure what caused the pain, but it just seemed to get better on it's own. | details |
| Charlie | 19 days | time, being a little careful. Got some nice therapy sessions early on which helped quite a bit | details |
| Jagge | 19 days | details | |
| szurcher | 19 days | Dry needling in my butt muscles helped a lot. | details |
| drwill4 | 20 days | 24 may 07 - It seems that I can perform any of the various activities I like to do such as weight liting, biking & kayaking. I have not tried hiking yet. My major problem is simply standing and walking. I can not stand for longer than a few minutes without significant pain. It has been 3 weeks since the flair-up and It does not seem to be getting better over time. Morning stretches and evening hot tub soaks alleviate the symptoms only. It seems that this again, is the new normal of my life a... | details |
| kurthu | 20 days | details | |
| zoolander | 20 days | Torsion of hockey most likely. Trained through it and stretched hips, flexors, hams daily. Plus continued strengthening. | details |
| Crash | 20 days | I am not truely recovered, but in the power of positive thinking, if I start telling myself I am , it may sink in! | details |
| urthbuoy | 21 days | details | |
| walk | 26 days | Aleve plus sleeping on back seemed to resolve soreness but transferred it to hip(?) | details |
| Charlie | 30 days | Mostly just faded away. It's not perfect, but much less annoying than a few weeks ago. Tried to be gentle with it, maintain posture, avoid undue strain. | details |
| smoke | 30 days | details | |
| Sid | 34 days | Should have seen a massage therapist sooner to correct the muscle imbalance. | details |
| mmace | 40 days | details | |
| Nadim | 43 days | Time, stretching, some rest and some exercise. | details |
| T - runner | 43 days | details | |
| Kona.Max | 48 days | My back is basically just stiff some of the time now. My sense is that I suffer from a chronic condition called "my thirties". I'm going to get some massage and acupuncture, but otherwise I think this thing no longer qualifies as an injury. | details |
| Tiny | 53 days | details | |
| MoeD | 55 days | core strengthing | details |
| vosvos | 57 days | Pepper patch helped. | details |
| LittleBit | 60 days | Pain is more discomfort now so it feels cheating to have it on my log. Still an issue occasionally but I think I'll live! | details |
| GrantM | 65 days | Not sure whether it was just time that eventually fixed things, or the 3 sessions of traction I have had in the last week, but things are a lot better. Still rather stiff, but even the soreness has nearly gone. | details |
| zoolander | 70 days | Still haven't done any real running. A few short runs (few hundred meters) here and there. Only feel discomfort (nerve) now when doing twists (i.e. wood choppers, etc.) | details |
| jlf | 73 days | details | |
| fredder | 75 days | I'm going to call this over--even though the stiffness just hasn't gone away. It probably slows me down some, but it doesn't keep me from training anymore. To really address the problem, I think I'd have to spend more time at getting massages and adjustments than I do. | details |
| Tiny | 77 days | details | |
| MeanGene | 79 days | cause - last winter heard (Feb 07?) a pop lifting weights in a bent over rowing exercise. No hurt then. PT and stretching routine recommended by Dr Rob Jones emphasized core muscles. Yoga recommended and must do stretching daily. It must work as I can bike ride again without pain afterwards (5/18/07) | details |
| F-Master-C | 85 days | details | |
| Thanatomimesis | 107 days | details | |
| Boltboi | 115 days | details | |
| Black_Knight | 118 days | Core exercises seem to have fixed this, although I suspect it may be still lingering, and flare up again sometime? | details |
| arg | 121 days | details | |
| mattspencer | 133 days | details | |
| rdlesko | 138 days | Finally feel pain free today. No problems getting out of my chair or car. Lets see how it goes towards the weekend. | details |
| Martinpeat | 396 days | details | |
| ken | 559 days | it seems like the root cause was hip-flexor tightness. stretching that out really helped. | details |
| bubi | 1+ days | details | |
| kwruck | 4+ days | details | |
| LittleBit | 57+ days | details | |
| Crash | 72+ days | details | |
| cmpbllv | 117+ days | details | |
| mat-d | 132+ days | details | |
| Oxoman | 191+ days | details | |
| bvivian | 406+ days | details | |
| Martinpeat | 540+ days | details | |
| GregBalter | 610+ days | details | |
| ken | 672+ days | details |