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Gyp Rosetti

Gyp Rosetti

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So I've had bad kinks in my neck for a day or two before, hell, maybe even three days and then they just unravel naturally and everything's hunky dory. But I've had this awful kink in my neck that's very painful for about five days now. It shows no signs of getting better and I'm not sure what to do. I've been taking a muscle relaxer once or twice a day but it seems to do nothing. I've been popping Ibuprofen and now and then too but nothing. I started using a heating pad yesterday but I'm not sure it really did anything. I honestly feel like laying on my hardwoods all day doing nothing as I think that may help but I'm not a complete sociopath. I'm to the point now where I'm slightly concerned that this is going to never go away and linger for the rest of my life. Help!
 
SalmonHobo said:
So I've had bad kinks in my neck for a day or two before, hell, maybe even three days and then they just unravel naturally and everything's hunky dory. But I've had this awful kink in my neck that's very painful for about five days now. It shows no signs of getting better and I'm not sure what to do. I've been taking a muscle relaxer once or twice a day but it seems to do nothing. I've been popping Ibuprofen and now and then too but nothing. I started using a heating pad yesterday but I'm not sure it really did anything. I honestly feel like laying on my hardwoods all day doing nothing as I think that may help but I'm not a complete sociopath. I'm to the point now where I'm slightly concerned that this is going to never go away and linger for the rest of my life. Help!
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This happens to me when I am extremely stressed. My neck and upper back will be stiff and sore for up to three weeks at a time. Just relax and remove the stress from your life. Oddly enough, I have found that the stress that gets me the worst is what I think I have under control a lot of the time.
 
Scat said:
This happens to me when I am extremely stressed. My neck and upper back will be stiff and sore for up to three weeks at a time. Just relax and remove the stress from your life. Oddly enough, I have found that the stress that gets me the worst is what I think I have under control a lot of the time.
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Yeah, I'm in the middle of trying to close on a house so that could be it. Plus I haven't worked out as much recently.
 
Yeah, me either...

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Isn't that dude kind of "too" skinny? I think he needs to put some meat on his bones.
 
Wife and I both have neck/back issues. Hers are from running and stress. Mine are from sleeping weird and lifting. A big key is to get with a PT guy you trust. We have a really good trainer at the high school and I have him check me out now and then (usually just cracks my back). I find a good back-cracking once a week takes care of and/or avoids many probs. Right now that happens when I do dumbell bench. With the weights in hand I roll back on the bench and get some serious cracking. So nice.

Anyone try those things where you hang upside down every morning? Never have but I've heard people swear by them.

There was a time I made fun of guys with back probs. Thought they were being pusswads. Several years ago when I was in basketball shape I came down with a rebound not awkward at all and felt something twing in my back. Kept playing and it kept getting worse. By that night I was curled in the fetal position wimpering and crying. It was gone the next day and never came back. But I don't make fun of those guys anymore.
 
CONAN said:
Wife and I both have neck/back issues. Hers are from running and stress. Mine are from sleeping weird and lifting. A big key is to get with a PT guy you trust. We have a really good trainer at the high school and I have him check me out now and then (usually just cracks my back). I find a good back-cracking once a week takes care of and/or avoids many probs. Right now that happens when I do dumbell bench. With the weights in hand I roll back on the bench and get some serious cracking. So nice.

I'm a little skeptical here only because my problem is in my upper neck to where it's at almost the middle of the back of my head where the nerves connect and ****.

Anyone try those things where you hang upside down every morning? Never have but I've heard people swear by them.

I've been thinking of the same exact thing actually...like Michael Keaton in the first Batman movie...

There was a time I made fun of guys with back probs. Thought they were being pusswads. Several years ago when I was in basketball shape I came down with a rebound not awkward at all and felt something twing in my back. Kept playing and it kept getting worse. By that night I was curled in the fetal position wimpering and crying. It was gone the next day and never came back. But I don't make fun of those guys anymore.

Exactly. I use to do the same thing to my father...poke fun of him and his minor tweaks and aches and injuries...and as I hit 36 this summer, I get the same exact knee pain but unfortunately for me, the lower back pain and now neck pain on top of it.
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Thank you Mr. Barbarian.
 
I thought the same thing with neck pain. And it was also near my skull. The trainer started working on my back and I was like WTF are you doing it's my neck. He said shut up and wait. He cracked my back and the neck pain went away. When he has worked on me he usually starts working below where the pain is and that takes care of it.
 
CONAN said:
Anyone try those things where you hang upside down every morning? Never have but I've heard people swear by them.
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I'm one of those people.

I don't get neck pain very frequently, but I have major lower back issues. I bought an inversion table and have not regretted it one iota. I hang in the morning for about two minutes. That's it. Before I bought it, I would have 2 or 3 episodes a year where my back seized up and made me basically immobile for 5-10 days. Excruciating. Since getting it (I have had it for about 3 years now) I have not been out of commission due to my back.
 
Bronco70 said:
I'm one of those people.

I don't get neck pain very frequently, but I have major lower back issues. I bought an inversion table and have not regretted it one iota. I hang in the morning for about two minutes. That's it. Before I bought it, I would have 2 or 3 episodes a year where my back seized up and made me basically immobile for 5-10 days. Excruciating. Since getting it (I have had it for about 3 years now) I have not been out of commission due to my back.
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You just sold me. I did a little research on these gravity inversion tables and am buying one when I move into the new place. Hell, the most expensive one I saw online in my 30 seconds of research was only $200. That'll pay for itself in co-pays and agony in just a few years.
 
SalmonHobo said:
You just sold me. I did a little research on these gravity inversion tables and am buying one when I move into the new place. Hell, the most expensive one I saw online in my 30 seconds of research was only $200. That'll pay for itself in co-pays and agony in just a few years.
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Oh, and you mentioned knee pain - I have less of that too, since getting the inversion table.
 
The whole inversion table thing looks interesting. I wonder if there is anywhere you can try one before buying it.
 
True story, back in the early 80's these inversion tables were all the rage and ran in price from $300 for a cheap version to well over a $1000 for a top of the line model. My friends dad had a bum back and wasn't going to pay money for a "table that flipped you upside down when you could hang from monkey bars". He devised a plan using eye bolts and ski boots. He inserted the eye bolts into the rear heel of the ski boots and then inserted hooks into the upper door jamb. His plan was to put the boots on, buckle himself up tight and then hang from the upper door jamb.

Watching him try to get into the contraption is one of the funniest moments from my childhood. A grown man with ski boots on trying to figure out how to get his feet 6.5' in the air while simultaneously hooking the boots onto the hooks. He would stand on his hands and then using the sides of the door frame to steady himself would work his feet one at a time onto the hooks. The first one always went the easiest but after attaching himself, his other leg would flail about while he tried to line the eye bolt up with the hook. If one of the kids wasn't there to help him I think he more often than not ended up hanging by just one leg. It got to the point that if he called for one of the kids everyone would run and hide because they knew he was going to "hang himself" as his wife called it. Every kid was kicked in the face by an errant ski boot at least once during this period.

Watching him get down was even funnier. Again, unhooking the first leg was easiest because he could put his hands on the floor and stabilize everything before lifting his first boot off the hook. After that it was anybody's guess as to where or how hard he was going to fall. He'd try to get himself set with one leg on the door frame making sure he was stable but the little push he had to exert to get the second boot off the hook always threw him off balance and he'd come crashing down 9 times out of 10.

I'm pretty sure his back was in much worse shape after this little project than before he started. In his mind however it proved that hanging upside down was just a silly fad and really didn't do anything for sore backs.
 
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