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Originally Posted by Starscream
I guess the drive home had some other disaster thrown upon me. I have had some serious lower back pain yesterday and today. Kinda worried about doing exercise right now. Guess I'll get in some WiiFit that is low impact.
Stretching: help or hurt right now?
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Andy, if your back is in spasm, heat usally helps. If you slipped something and it's caused inflammation, then the inflammation has caused spasm, ice and nsaids like motrin (I use 4x200mg 4 x's a day) will take out the swelling.
My personal opinion from my personal experience is that if I lay down and let the problem simmer, I'll have a major problem in no time. It just snowballs and gets so tight it makes you sick to the stomach.
If it's spam, the heating pad should iron that out in a day. If it hasn't gotten markedly better, I'd suggest you make a bunch of gallon bags of crushed ice wrapped in towels, strap them suckers on, let your back get cooled off, make sure you took your motrin, and get moving around. Your support structure will get your backbone back where it was with a minimal amount of discomfort (read: it'll probably hurt like hell, but it'll hurt a lot worse if you lay around on it).
So on the stretching, not just yet. Do that other stuff first and see if you can get fixed up.
