To the older bad back guys out there
- Thread starter TomHay
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I used to play year around, now I play in the winter, about once a week. No practice. If I play for more than a few hours, I can't walk the next day. I love playing sets, gambling a bit, but I can't play long enough anymore.
Sure I can take advil, sure if I go to the chiro often, I can play a bit more. Just not worth waking up and not being able to walk for the first hour or two.
Sure I can take advil, sure if I go to the chiro often, I can play a bit more. Just not worth waking up and not being able to walk for the first hour or two.
Wow a lot of you hit home but the below post is where I am at. I had a couple of times last year where I had to pull myself in the car and the drive home, whoaaa.
You could consider my Sunday match, make it or break it,
Lifes good but if I can't play I may have to come out of retirement, rather work for free and stay busy than sit around bored. One way or another it will work itself out.
You could consider my Sunday match, make it or break it,
Lifes good but if I can't play I may have to come out of retirement, rather work for free and stay busy than sit around bored. One way or another it will work itself out.
Tom.... 2 things.... Buy a tense unit from walgreens and use it nightly so the muscles are too tired to lock you up.... And order some DMSO with Aloe from Amazon to help fight the inflamation caused by the arthritis...
https://www.facebook.com/dian.binneman/videos/10153812484649815/
DMSO is only approved by the FDA for intercranial swelling... You can put it on the scalp and it will reduce the swelling......
It's the strongest anti-inflamatory they have tested but since it is a byproduct big pharma can't own it.......
https://www.facebook.com/dian.binneman/videos/10153812484649815/
DMSO is only approved by the FDA for intercranial swelling... You can put it on the scalp and it will reduce the swelling......
It's the strongest anti-inflamatory they have tested but since it is a byproduct big pharma can't own it.......
I bought one of these inversion units in the mid-1990’s at age 60 directly from the company that invented it and have been using it twice-weekly ever since. Best money I ever spent.
If your back problem is in any way related to disc compressions (and the always-linked nerve pinch pain), this unit is a dependably pain-relieving and re-alignment answer (was to me anyway). The accompanying literature that came with the unit mentioned that you achieve maximal decompression in 70 seconds, and that indeed turns out to be the actual truth.
Your upper body hanging bent over and fully relaxed, does the job, and anything more than 70 seconds isn’t necessary (or result enhancing). Using the unit for a couple minutes a week, not even daily, keeps my discs de-compressed and the back muscles toned, thereby much less prone to cramping up from reaching, bending, or moderate lifting movements. I had 35 years of fairly recurring back problems before finding this solution; it's quite different from any inversion unit I've ever seen or heard about. Good easy to use design which appealed to my mechanical instincts.
I bought a small magnet-backed timer at a kitchen products store and keep it attached upside down within reach on the metal base of the unit. Cost triple Cs for the exceedingly sturdy unit then and now, plus about $50 for shipping (thick steel tubing throughout, so it’s heavy to ship).
Takes about a half-hour to assemble and it’s terrifically solid when you’re done. It’s a very commonsensical premise that your spine gets compressed throughout the day, and stressed and marginally out of alignment via a variety of activities.
They include a booklet of dozens of exercises you can do on the unit if you like; I never do any of them and my back stays toned and discs decompressed just from the weekly minutes I briefly invert on it. I've recommended it to a couple dozen other pool players over the years whose back pain had chronically plagued them or even shut them down entirely and was glad to do it. Here's one link to read about it:
http://tinyurl.com/novbaqh
Arnaldo – (also two descriptive pix attached)
If your back problem is in any way related to disc compressions (and the always-linked nerve pinch pain), this unit is a dependably pain-relieving and re-alignment answer (was to me anyway). The accompanying literature that came with the unit mentioned that you achieve maximal decompression in 70 seconds, and that indeed turns out to be the actual truth.
Your upper body hanging bent over and fully relaxed, does the job, and anything more than 70 seconds isn’t necessary (or result enhancing). Using the unit for a couple minutes a week, not even daily, keeps my discs de-compressed and the back muscles toned, thereby much less prone to cramping up from reaching, bending, or moderate lifting movements. I had 35 years of fairly recurring back problems before finding this solution; it's quite different from any inversion unit I've ever seen or heard about. Good easy to use design which appealed to my mechanical instincts.
I bought a small magnet-backed timer at a kitchen products store and keep it attached upside down within reach on the metal base of the unit. Cost triple Cs for the exceedingly sturdy unit then and now, plus about $50 for shipping (thick steel tubing throughout, so it’s heavy to ship).
Takes about a half-hour to assemble and it’s terrifically solid when you’re done. It’s a very commonsensical premise that your spine gets compressed throughout the day, and stressed and marginally out of alignment via a variety of activities.
They include a booklet of dozens of exercises you can do on the unit if you like; I never do any of them and my back stays toned and discs decompressed just from the weekly minutes I briefly invert on it. I've recommended it to a couple dozen other pool players over the years whose back pain had chronically plagued them or even shut them down entirely and was glad to do it. Here's one link to read about it:
http://tinyurl.com/novbaqh
Arnaldo – (also two descriptive pix attached)
Wow, pretty neat looking set up. I have looked at the gravity boots but this looks great, if not better.
Results: I had to cut back on the Motrin but thats fine.
I got there about 45 minutes early to get in stroke.
We played for 4 hours $10.00 a game, I lost $50.00. The good news is both last night and this morning had no more pain than walking in, not much, just enough to know its there. No Motrin today, I want to see if I just hit the norm without it or just masking making it worse.
Looks like for now, the Fat Lady aint singing. Next is to go back into flow without over thinking my approuch etc etc. When you are playing a guy who will turn the whole game around with the slightest mistake you need all your concentration. It was more fun than anything else $50.00 will buy.
Results: I had to cut back on the Motrin but thats fine.
I got there about 45 minutes early to get in stroke.
We played for 4 hours $10.00 a game, I lost $50.00. The good news is both last night and this morning had no more pain than walking in, not much, just enough to know its there. No Motrin today, I want to see if I just hit the norm without it or just masking making it worse.
Looks like for now, the Fat Lady aint singing. Next is to go back into flow without over thinking my approuch etc etc. When you are playing a guy who will turn the whole game around with the slightest mistake you need all your concentration. It was more fun than anything else $50.00 will buy.