spinal erector strain

[Vancouver]

Anyone deal with this injury? It's an extremely debilitating injury. Been sleeping on a floor on a thin foam mattress for 3 weeks. Took 4 days before I could walk without pain. Spinal erectors seize up and twists your spine. It comes on every few years...

Because it's a recurring injury for me, I do work on flexibility and regular rehab. I roll on a foam roller, can put my palms on the floor (knees straight), etc. When they are under stress and they want to seize up, there's nothing you can do about it, because it comes on sudden.

I'm now back in in the gym after 5 year layoff ( 3 new kids since); but kept active with bowflex and some sports. I'm really eager to get back to where I was and the strength is coming back strong (been adding 5-10% every week for 6 weeks). Now this injury, it's deflating. I have to work on core and rehab for the next 3-4 weeks (but I'm impatient)...I keep re-injuring although not as bad as the original episode. (spring skiing with the kids likely added strain to my back which brought on the injury in the gym).

Anyone else deal with sensitive spinal erectors? Any success stories?

 

[bblazer]

Blue Lotion, Wintercrest, Skelaxin, and using an 8" diameter PVC pipe to roll with. Eventually you can beat those erectors into submission. My inversion table also provides some temporary relief.

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[Vancouver]

Blue Lotion, Wintercrest, Skelaxin, and using an 8" diameter PVC pipe to roll with. Eventually you can beat those erectors into submission. My inversion table also provides some temporary relief.

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Thanks for the info; I'm already rolling on a tube, but this makes things worse when the muscles are at the point of spasm...I will definitley be returning to the roller once the back settles down; I've been rolling 2x per day for 4 years.

I take cyclobenzaprine for a couple of days when it's bad; it's stronger than Skelaxin, but the sides are worse; I hate the stuff...it turns me into a zombie.

Now for WinterCrest...WOW, I've never heard of the stuff before, just spent the last 2 hours researching it. I think the active ingredient is DMSO, another compound I've never heard of. I've been reading on DMSO, watched a video series from the 80's on 60 minutes (with Mike Wallace)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0i7jARfKeI

WinterCrest seems pretty expensive compaired to regular DMSO $75 for 8 oz vs. $7 for 8 oz.

What has been your experience with WinterCrest? How long do you think an 8 oz jar would last using it just for the back for 2 weeks dily and then 3 days a week??? I'm sure I can get DMSO over the counter somehwere in Vancouver Canada, it's not a banned substance here

 

[bblazer]

Wintercrest has lots of other good stuff in it besides DMSO. When used properly, you can even taste it

I get the big jars, and use it 2x/week for deadlift and event training sessions. Typically, even with my training team "never seeming to have their own" and taking some of mine, I get well over a month of use. I not only put it on my back, but my knees and elbows as well.

Availability in Canada must be by province. When I was at nationals last year, there were several competitors that told me that DMSO was banned. I think (remember I'm old with a bad memory) they were from Nova Scotia and Ontario. You might be able to find a DMSO product at a farm animal supply store.

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[johnwest]

I pulled one of those son of a bitches 10 years ago, it turned from an acute problem to a chronic problem because i didn't keep flexibility in the muscle as it healed and the right psoas muscle tightened to compensate.

Look up spinal erector stretches and psoas stretches, take it light and easy and you'll be 100% in a couple months.