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.
 
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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.
 
I had a duodenal switch because I was almost 500 lbs. I've lost a little over 100 lbs and my back feels much better now when I play.
 
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.
 
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