my back's still bad
Dec. 2nd, 2006 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321I went to see an osteopath on Thursday who spent an hour feeling my back and making me bend and gave me my first useful diagnosis. I feel the pain in the lumbar vertebrae; he reckons these are inflamed because they are scrunching together due to years of bad posture: I hollow out my back too much. Also, the joints between my pelvis and thigh bones are very stiff, apparently, and this has translated itself up into my lumbar region. This makes sense to me.
He asked me to put an icepack on my back 10 minutes every hour (I'd been putting heat and he said this was wrong; to get the inflammation down, I needed to cool it). And he wants to work on the pelvic region because my pain in the lumbar region is too acute to do anything there; I get too nervous about manipulated there.
I go back on Monday. I also teach again on Monday.
He asked me to put an icepack on my back 10 minutes every hour (I'd been putting heat and he said this was wrong; to get the inflammation down, I needed to cool it). And he wants to work on the pelvic region because my pain in the lumbar region is too acute to do anything there; I get too nervous about manipulated there.
I go back on Monday. I also teach again on Monday.