IDB1":1n0w5f9a said:
Ok . . back question, since there's some experience in here...
Had an x-ray of mine following months of pain and the x-ray was normal..
It's mostly centred around my sacrum but I get quite a bit of referred pain into my coccyx and hips..
What's next (from a diagnosis p.o.v.) ??
If it does not show up on xray, it might be soft tissue damage, muscles and the stuff thereabouts. Sciatica is such a problem cased by lower spine problems, it can come across as an annoyance in the pelvis and down the leg, to the toes, sometimes a numb feeling or tingling or even as reported the feeling of hot water running down the leg. Higher up a stabbing pain in the front of the pelvis above and to the side of the groin.
Perhaps an MRI scan would be more beneficial if the X- ray did not result in anything, perhaps you should ask for one of thse to view the soft tissue areas.
But regards back care, I personally believe we are taught from an early age to stand and move incorrectly, for the back from the base of the skull to the pelvis should form a shallow S curve naturally, from the pelvis to the feet the form should be a bow shape, the whole idea of the structure is to form a shock absorber for the brain. It is my observation that people when they stand, they tend to lock their knees, that because the thigh and knee muscles are not strong enough to support the bow shape that should be there. Similarly I see so many stand with back straight indicating to me the back is under tension when it should be adopting a neutral state.
How many times has anyone heard,
stand up straight, back straight, chest out and head held high, perhaps from their childhood or beyond, has anyone thought of what is happening there, you are in effect modifying the natural stance, a stance I believe leads to back injury in later life as it seems Britain has a proclivity to.
I have also noticed the natural gait and stance of Asians, it differs from ours, now that might be a difference in natural structure or it might be they are just natural in their movement, I thought long ago when I noticed this, I want what they have got and so for years I did yoga to alter my stance eventually ending up with belly dancing and my own core training exercises at home.
Stangely enough though one of the exercises I find beneficial, is playing the PS2 whilst sitting on an exercise ball, the game as you know makes the body move and sitting on an exercise ball the lower spine and pelvis connection is getting exercised whilst doing other things.
But aside from all that, are you drinking enough water, as water is beneficial for the cushioning
discs between the vertabrae, as one ages these discs become thinner, and dehydrated thus allowing the vertabrae to grind up against each other or transmit shock to less moveable structures, the pelvis for example and surrounding tissues. Shock should be damped out by correct alignment of the body, if the body is not correctly aligned then shock from movement will not dissipate as it should and action will be felt.
The coccyx is of course the tail end of the spine, a left over from our prehistoric past perhaps, even usefless now, but we have it and it bloody hurty when something is wrong with it I know.
Advice, if I may, drink lots of water, avoid diuretics, eat healthily and take a look at your lifestyle and your posture and make coreections where you find faults.
Disclaimer, I am not a medical professional, all that I have imparted here is from my own quest to sort my own problems out where the medical services were coming up with no answers beyond keep taking pain killers. But the best anyone can do for themselves, is learn about their own problems and make the effort to sort out what they can themselves, for it may be nothing more than a carriage problem which can be sorted out with perseverance
