How have you put your back out?

[bsrlee]

Most recently? Stepping out of the shower! I've also done it stepping out of the bath at a friend's house - just before we were to go camping for a week

It started when I was in Primary School - I slipped on a wet floor & damaged the muscles in my lower back - staff wouldn't believe me & made me sit thru' the day & carry my books etc home - I had 2 weeks off on doctor's orders. I've had intermittant problems ever since.

It is really inconvenient when I have put it out with all my gear out in the open - I have to work in the yard & my gear lives in a lawn shed.

[Pat]

I did my back driving IRB's (Inflatable Rubber Boats - Rubber Duckies) at the age of Seventeen - young, dumb and bullet proof. Earned quiet a repretation for taking anything on (ratbag), MBGitW told her kids never to get in the boat with me! Now, when my back decides I have sleeped, layed down, exercised, stood, whatever to much, it goes on strike for 1 min to days. I have not been to medical aid as I know how to fix the bugger - do the opposite of what you were doing!

[Ian007]

Our orginisation has 33,000 employees. So firing someone is extremely hard work!!

My guess would be Telstra?

[Clinton1]

I did my L4/L5 picking up a generator and throwing it - in a hissy fit. Two man lift does not mean one angry man.
Solved my workplace 'task allocations' dispute... for about 5 mins.
Then I had to spend the next two weeks faking perfect health so I didn't look like a goose that threw his back out by having a hissy fit.
Two years later and I regret it every day. Now I'm the bloke that says "don't lift it like that, you'll hurt your back...."
Muscle relaxants help, and make me sleepy, happy, and feel very nice - even when I feel like being a grumpy pri#k

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Some 15 years operating 'dozers & excavators in the bush to pay for my toys. Having a '45 Harley as sole means of transport didn't help, either. No more suspension in it than in one of da dozers and there ain't much difference between a cats' eye at speed or travelling over a tree trunk at walking pace. Both keep chiropractors employed.

At the time I was more concerned about the ol' kidneys. Trust me to take precautions against the wrong thing.

Still have the Harley, BTW. And the kidney belt. Don't have most of the toys...

[Robert34]

Some 15 years operating 'dozers & excavators in the bush to pay for my toys. Having a '45 Harley as sole means of transport didn't help, either. No more suspension in it than in one of da dozers and there ain't much difference between a cats' eye at speed or travelling over a tree trunk at walking pace. Both keep chiropractors employed.

At the time I was more concerned about the ol' kidneys. Trust me to take precautions against the wrong thing.

Still have the Harley, BTW. And the kidney belt. Don't have most of the toys...

Don'tcha just luv those old Harley's.

Robert34

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Don'tcha just luv those old Harley's.

They were real men in those days. Or just bloody stupid.

[JDarvall]

I did my L4/L5 picking up a generator and throwing it - in a hissy fit. Two man lift does not mean one angry man.
Solved my workplace 'task allocations' dispute... for about 5 mins.
Then I had to spend the next two weeks faking perfect health so I didn't look like a goose that threw his back out by having a hissy fit.
Two years later and I regret it every day. Now I'm the bloke that says "don't lift it like that, you'll hurt your back...."
Muscle relaxants help, and make me sleepy, happy, and feel very nice - even when I feel like being a grumpy pri#k

Feel for you that your still having problems 2 years latter.

At work, I do tonns of lifting. I did my back in when I first started. Hated it too much I've taken the rules of 'bending my knees' to the extreme. The rule now is

if your thighs arn't burning, screeming 'STOP' then your not bending your knees enough.

Seems to have worked. I haven't had a back problem since. But I looked pretty bloody funny for a while to my work mates. I'm a lanky bloke, with long legs, so when I bend down in that way with my bum jutting out I must look like some kind of nutter grasshopper, trying to **** a fly.

But I don't care, I say, because my 'backs intact'.

[Munga]

Few years ago I had the gates on my truck fall on me bust my back ended up with 3 vertibrae screwed together told not to lift anything heavy and retire, bank disagreed with that idea so carried on regardless (taking care though) then had my mates tractor dissassembled to replace the main PTO shaft went to roll the gearbox over Wham back gone again into hospital another disc Laminectomy and received many lectures about listening to advice from doctors.

Ears are wide open now.

Cliff when were you at rad school.

Cheers Arch

[Dusty]

I know what your going through, Al.

I've done mine several times and twice been carted out of building sites by ambo's. Not pretty.

Since then, every time I lift I put on one of those back braces, like the ones worn by Bunnings employees. This has made a huge difference and its been years now since a bad back attack.

Although, as is the case with Al, it's not always doing something heavy that throws it out. I once saw my brother-in -law do his back picking up the TV remote control. The big girl.

[Cliff Rogers]

...Cliff when were you at rad school....

105 RTC Dec'76 to Apr'78 & then No5 Minicomputer Postgrad from Aug'79 to Apr'80.

[Stuart]

weightlifting - more a muscle tear
jumping down sanddunes
doing headsprings (what we could do when we were younger......)
sneezing
sex

[JDarvall]

weightlifting - more a muscle tear
jumping down sanddunes
doing headsprings (what we could do when we were younger......)
sneezing
sex

Sex !!! What position was that ? :eek:

Did you do your back in attempting some kind of weird Karma Sutra headstanding position. Oh, I get it, you were doing headsprings (what are they exactly) while having sex. yes ?

[Wassy]

I have full sympathy for all back sufferers. 11 years ago I fell from a 2 storey (7 m) building and broke L2, L3, L4 and L5. I have had to learn my new limits and whilst I stay within the residual pain is minimal. Once in a while I do something stupid (like helping a mate move house) and I suffer for a couple of weeks.

Back care: one of the best insurance policies we can make.

Cheers,
Mat.

[Wassy]

My guess would be Telstra?

Did he say employees or contractors?