I’m 44 and I’ve suffered with pain to the lower part of my back for a few years now. I consider myself fairly fit and play football regularly on a Sunday morning. The pain came and went in the beginning, but is now there constantly. The effect on my football is that I just cannot run as fast and extend myself as I did, as I am restricted by the pain.
Without doing anything drastic, would anyone know if there was anything I could do which would at least give some respite to the pain, so that at least I could achieve something like the performance levels I had a few years ago.
Thanks.
RE: Lower Back Pain & Football
Without being too personal I don't know if you have an active life or not. If you have a fairly sedentary job and play football once a week? If you do you may find that it is simply a case of inactivity. As we get older, I am one of these people, we do slow down a little. One thing I do tend to forget is I am not 20 anymore, what wouldn't have affected me in the past does now. It does shock me as I certainly don't feel old, 53!! The biggest shock is the mirrors that seem to be everywhere when you are shopping. I see a middle aged woman looking at me but my brain says I'm 30ish! You will be stop starting with soccer and twisting so maybe some stretching exercises in between matches? Just be aware of the fact you have a bad back, it is easy to just push it a little bit harder. How are your abdominals? You need to make sure they are exercised as they will help support your back. With sit ups make sure you don't hook your feet under anything or get anyone to hold your feet down. This won't isolate your abdominals, Try crunches and vary the angle of your feet. If you put your feet on a chair, make sure you don't havea hollow back, this will alter the abdominals exercisedIt's easiest to say we have upper, middle and lowe abdominals. I'm sure some of our more experienced guys and gals will give you further advice.
RE: Lower Back Pain & Football
I've had on-off lower back pain since my late 20s, which is definitely caused by pushing it at running, such as jogging (not soccer in my case). It goes away, in my case, if I stop the exercise. But since you don't want to do that, there's a partial help in a cream you can apply. Available over the counter. I forget it's name! Ah - Transvesin, I think. It draws blood to the area, makes it feel warm, and it goes red with the extra blood. Definitely soothes muscular pain.
V
RE: Lower Back Pain & Football
If the pain is there constantly, it would be a good ideal to go and see a health care professional, to find out if it is a muscular skeletal problem or if its systemic. For example: kidney infection, etc
Best wishes, C
RE: Lower Back Pain & Football
ORIGINAL: Pip G
Without doing anything drastic, would anyone know if there was anything I could do which would at least give some respite to the pain,
My advice would be to go and see a decent acupuncturist - sometimes these things can be addressed from the feet up?
RE: Lower Back Pain & Football
Thanks for your advice and comments everyone.
RE: Lower Back Pain & Football
try visiting a sports therapist who would be trained to assess your movemnt patterns wthin football and look for compensatory movement taking place. this could be due to several factors and will be within their remit to treat.
Regards
Gaz
RE: Lower Back Pain & Football
theres only one cure for back pain
pure rest
RE: Lower Back Pain & Football
yeah i had to stop playing for 12 month because of my back