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Incredible back pain

whisky

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I'm 55, I have the odd aches and pains, but today I bent down near the fridge and it felt like I broke my backs it was so intense, like nothing I had felt before, but a couple of ibuprofen later it was fine.

This kind of random intense pain I can do without.
 
A bit Austin Powers. Only lost one as a kid, and had one wisdom tooth out.
 
Hard soled shoes. Like, old-school combat boots. I'm *just* old enough to have been issued the old "black Cadillacs" from the first time I went to OCS and the drill instructors swore by them. We all (well, I at least) thought they were heavy and clunky and uncomfortable and would wear the jungle boots as much as they let us. And then after getting out into "the fleet" you'd wear the sneakerlike "tactical" boots favored by police and SG-1. Hi-Teks. Bates Lites.

Well since getting a dog I walk a lot and after, say, 50 I'd just randomly tweak my back walking and be miserable. For whatever reason it occurred to me to break out the "black Cadillacs" and damned if they don't help your back recover.

On a related note, I wound up heavy into Indiana Jones cosplay and eventually assembled a fairly accurate get-up. The shoes were Ford's own preferred shoes: Alden's (I forget the model) with an orthopedic sole. I couldn't justify the cost of actual Alden's, but I got one of the last pairs of a good repro a guy named Todd Coyle used to sell and was somewhat surprised at the time that there was nothing particularly special about the sole. It was just a stiff, hard sole. But after my experience with the combat boots I understood. A stiff, stable sole on a boot is like a foundation on a house: It provides stability and protects the spine. I still don't wear either every day for various reasons, but when my back starts feeling sore, I'll rotate the combat boots into my footwear for a time until my back fees better.

(On a side note, a lot of Ford's acting choices in "Raiders" are dictated by the costume. The way he rocks heel to toe as he steps across the booby-trapped temple floor in the beginning? That's the way you walk when you walk slowly in that particular shoe. When he's stealing the truck containing the ark and he's hunched over the steering wheel? He isn't being intense or focused. You have to sit that way when you're wearing a fedora in a truck or a car with a headrest. Otherwise the brim bumps against it.)
 
can i jump on the back pain band wagon? i've had back pain for most of my life due to a bad injury when I was 14. It will "go out" occasionally and I will be on a cane for 7-10 days. I have not had an episode in years, though, after starting on a core exercise regime. Strengthening my abdominals allowed me to put more weight on them instead of my back, which makes sense in retrospect but not something that I intuited naturally. Doin' a bunch of ab crunchy type things every morning has done tons for my back pain, but even then, it's a constant ache that I am going to have for the rest of my life.
 
I had been lifting weights the night before the pain, but it was only 3KG so didn't think it would have put any strain on my back. I have lost a bit of weight lately, but it seems to have plateaued out, so thought a bit of exercise might burn some calories.
 
I got all my wisdom teeth out, then it turned out I had a second wisdom tooth under one of the original ones and had to have that out too. Why so many teeth!
 
Maybe you were a shark in a past life?
 
Every once in a while I pinch a nerve in my back FOR NO REASON. It is the most annoying thing to not be doing anything particularly difficult and BAM I am in pain for two weeks.

lol we're all old now
 
Oh that reminds me (for some reason) do not click #farting on twitter. MISTAKES WERE MADE.
 
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