Re: Sciatica

Mark VandeWettering <wettering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-02-14, Glenn <GlennSheldon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 13, 5:27 pm, dkomo <dkomo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert Grumbine wrote:
In article
<b252c627-c39e-48bb-8212-c1f8b2228...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
chris thompson <chris.linthomp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 13, 12:16 am, SortingItOut <eri...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 12, 9:16 am, chris thompson <chris.linthomp...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

...really, really sucks. I mean it just totally sucks, with as few
redeeming character traits as creationism. If my doctor knew how much
opium derivative I've taken today she'd freak out. To put the pain
level in perspective, when they woke me up after abdominal surgery
last April, the epidural had popped out of my back ("Why the hell did
you wake me up?" I asked but no one answered me.) This hurts worse
than that.

Chris

Don't let it get you down. It can be fixed.

I was 30 when mine got chronic. Three months of physical therapy got
rid of the problem. I highly recommend it. But then after two months
of being pain free I went on a camping trip and slept on the ground.
Things went south fast, and within 48 hours I was far worse than I'd
ever been before. The doc started giving me big time pain stuff and
it hardly made a dent. I was in a "fix me or shoot me" state, so he
scheduled an emergency discectomy. The pain was gone immediately, but
it took a few years to really fully recover. Fifteen years later and
it's still going well.

Hang in there.

Thanks...but I have to ask this- almost everyone is saying it will go
away in a matter of weeks or months. Do you think it would have gotten
better in three months without physical therapy?

About the time my wife was talking to doctors about her
flagrantly ruptured disk, a study was released which had
examined PT vs. surgery for back problems. The net was a
'no difference'. (She had the surgery, to immediate relief --
disk rupture is more in vein of a surgically approachable
thing than many of the sort of back problems that 'intelligent'
designer set us up for by using a quadrupedal design rather
than making a fully bipdeal design. Rehabilitation took time,
however, and was/is vital.)

That's PT vs surgery, rather than PT vs. nothing.
I think PT is probably going to be required for you,
but may well be a terrible idea right now. Definitely
something to check with your doctor. But backs are
such messes that probably all of us should be doing
daily back exercises, irrespective of sciatica and other
back problems.

Recntly I started getting a sore back from jogging too strenously and
sitting around too much with poor posture. Too much sitting can be
murder on backs. I then tried hatha yoga. Within a few weeks the back
problem went away and won't come back as long as I continue with the yoga

Everybody blames the intelligent designer for back problems. But if you
had one of today's beautiful high tech cars and never gave it any
maintenance, that car would eventually give out. Backs have a large
number of muscles that need to maintain tone. If these muscles start to
weaken from lack of use, that produces a cascade of problems that can
lead to serious back conditions.

And if you fed it sugar, or ran it at too high an rpm for a period of
time, or loaded it with a ton of bricks, the car would give out
sooner.
Those who claim or imply that there is a better design should provide
one, and submit it to testing.

Are you saying that God couldn't have designed humans to not experience back
pain and myopia?

All is for the best, in this best of all possible worlds...

--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."

.

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