Back pain while playing

CBD has had a noticeable impact on my back pain. I've been using it through a private prescription at Releaf, a cannabis clinic in the UK. The prescription costs me about £190 per month.
For me, CBD seems to help with managing the discomfort and provides some relief that other treatments haven't offered. If you're in the UK, here's how to buy cannabis in the UK.
 
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Two things really helped me. I lost about 25 pounds and went to a naprapathic chiropractor. Turned out my lower spine was bulging forward and my lower vertebrae were splayed out in different directions. Wasn't cheap but eliminated probably 90% of my back pain in general and all of it playing pool.
 
Stay away from doctors and chiropractors. Go see a good sports therapist. They will give you preventative exercises that you'll be thankful for later.

Also, research is leaning away from stretching could muscles and leaning to warm up exercises.
 
Most folks stretch in the wrong direction...the muscles that need to be effected are stretched when you lean backward. Put your hands on something to stabilize yourself, then stretch backwards. Do this for 10 seconds and repeat several times.
 
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I'm over 14 years with cannabis alone for back pain. I've been fused twice at L5/S1, (part of L4/L5 disc was removed too), first from the back and the second one was in from the front. In the course of the first fusion, I found that I am opiate intolerant, but was able to eliminate them entirely with cannabis. Your results may vary, but it has been a Godsend in my life. It's not perfect, and there are downsides, but it is what keeps me upright and moving.

I was anti anything the government told me to be anti towards prior to that, with decades of clean piss tests to verify, too. Cannabis prohibition has been nothing short of a crime against humanity.


Now, that out of the way.... I don't recommend the OP follow my course. I first hurt my back while on active duty and didn't get proper medical attention early. Get looked at, and start with the least invasive options first. Don't rush into a surgery, but don't delay finding the cause of your pain, either.
 
Georgiacue said:
I'll admit I'm tall and overweight. When I play by myself lower back pain starts at about an hour. Drills even sooner since I'm constantly leaning over. Aside from losing weight which im workong on. Will a back brace help? I can play for a while if I'm playing with someone. It's the constant leaning over.
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Let me suggest Voltaren. It was by prescription only but it’s now available over the counter. Look it up.
 
Losing weight is awesome, but it won't necessarily help your back pain. You have to find out why it hurts. If you have disc problems or bone problems nothing will help but surgery. Pills or weed are just a slippery slope.

Research and find the best doctor. I had the best back surgeon in North Texas fix my spondylolisthesis. A year later my back was perfect. Once the back was good it's much easier to loose weight - I'm down 127 lbs in the past year and still falling.
 
Spinal surgery is risky. It has gotten better in the last 40 or 50 years but still not perfect. One downside is that the effect of a "perfect" result is that one area is strengthened, but the stresses and strains on the human skeleton are transferred elsewhere playing a terrible practical joke: the next least stable defect in your spine becomes symptomatic. Picture a row of dominoes.

Forget about catastrophic accidents, the biggest problem is that if one works hard and/or plays hard while abandoning concern for physical well being (sound like anyone here?) they will end up with chronic pain.

Opioids do work. Wonderfully, for many, too wonderfully for some. The problem with opioids is the idiots who do not have the strength and integrity to properly self-administer such drugs, governmental policy that punishes the good with the bad, and a medical profession that refuses to place the interests of their patients before their accumulation of ridiculous personal wealth.
 
Hell, just suck it up. Get some whisky, some codeine, some muscle relaxers and some reefer and you'll be just fine. HA
 
My lower back pain is going through posture exercises.

Sitting/standing in poor posture and thinking its comfortable is awful. Stretching and contracting exercises are a regular activity like breathing.

Training to activate your core for posture takes work and it should be done before bone degeneration from bad habits.
 
My lower back went out in late June and it finally forced me to go to the ER in early July. The ER doc basically said, “You just have a 61 year old back with arthritis”. He also said the same thing most have been saying in this thread about the physical therapy being the key. He stated that these type of injuries take about 30 days to heal. He was spot-on with everything. It took right at 30 days of patience and therapy. Now it’s just a matter of keeping the routine up.
 
A brace might help short term, but it won’t fix the reason your back is flaring from all the leaning. I got to the point where I needed a chiropractor for my low back.
 
DeeDeeCues said:
Stay away from doctors and chiropractors. Go see a good sports therapist. They will give you preventative exercises that you'll be thankful for later.

Also, research is leaning away from stretching could muscles and leaning to warm up exercises.
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I had back pain for 30 years until I went to a Physical Therapist and wouldn't you know it no more back pain!! Doctors aren't there to help you, they are there to help themselves make MONEY by whatever benefits their bank account the most!!! If muscle relaxers help to loosen up your back then I would ONLY go to a Physical Therapist to permanently alleviate the issue that's causing the back pain!!
 
Backs are so strange. I work for frito lay in route sales so putting chips on the shelf is a lot of kneeling and bending over. If I’m being careful It’s fine but I’m in a lot of pain by the last stop of the day. The funny thing is by the time I get back to unload and clean off my truck it’s fine and I feel nothing for the rest of the night. The only time I can feel anything is if I bend over to get the balls out of the trough instead of kneel.
 
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Percocets help a lot
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I was prescribed pain killers when launched from my motorcycle. I quit taking them the second day. I wanted to know what was going on, so when it hurt I could "stop doing that".
My practice the next day had me standing upright and hitting the balls one handed. It was the therapy I needed at the time. A side benefit was the strength of the foundation of stance and balance was improved. Shooting from the hip can happen. Ronnie Allen put on incredible shows Shooting standing upright and one handed. Might be ..
 
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Backs are so strange. I work for frito lay in route sales so putting chips on the shelf is a lot of kneeling and bending over. If I’m being careful It’s fine but I’m in a lot of pain by the last stop of the day. The funny thing is by the time I get back to unload and clean off my truck it’s fine and I feel nothing for the rest of the night. The only time I can feel anything is if I bend over to get the balls out of the trough instead of kneel.
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Playing pool I never had issues just slightly bent over or other unfamiliar extended positions would make my lower back just give out until I had Physical Therapy. Since Covid Physical Therapy and an Eye Dr are the ONLY competent medical "professionals" I've dealt with, sad but true!
 
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