Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 4:34
My journey with a slipped disc
This is not a sciatic pain which I have had. This is a slip disc. And I really need some help with this. And all they could say was, go try physiotherapy and come back. It's very unhelpful out of desperation because it was a Saturday the first time around a chiropractor who was open. There was no physiotherapy clinic that was open on that Saturday. That particular Saturday. And I found a chiropractor. And I said, I'll give it a shot
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 3:16
And 20 minutes later, after my session, I was able to stand straight. I was able to perform the SLR successfully. And then I started my physiotherapy again. For those who suffer with a bad back and who have a herniated disc, you know, the difference between the issues and the trouble that a slip disc or herniated disc gives you versus just pure sciatic pain
Mark R Fitness
@Markrfitness · 3:39
I can't work remotely when it comes to biomechanics, but if you can find somebody, it might be worth checking them out just to see if that can help you. But if you're free from pain at the moment and you're okay then. All good. Yeah. I thought I would just join this conversation. Sorry, I'm in the street. I would just join this conversation. It's in my area of expertise, back pain, knee and shoulder pain
And in the first, I ended up with a pretty bad disc injury that resulted in what you described. I was pretty much unable to move for a while. I mean, aside from standing for a few moments at a time, I was pretty much completely bedridden, and at one point the pain had gotten so bad that I was using a cane because I had actually fallen a couple of times, not a few, but I used it for support because I experienced such horrible back and nerve pain
Ray Renati
@RayRenati · 0:50
Her last name is Gokayl. Sounds like you are in Palo Alto as well. You went to Stanford. She's on California Avenue, right off California Avenue in Palo Alto. I'll leave a link to her website here and they're fantastic there. Okay. Take care
Mark R Fitness
@Markrfitness · 4:59
What happens is when you work out, you need to stretch. So if you've gone for a run, then you need to stretch out the it band and you need to stretch your hip flexors, because as you work out, your muscles shorten, so you want to stretch it and put it back to its original state before the workout. Now, when I see people, when I get people and get them to do the screens and get them in the clinic and run some screens on them
Mark R Fitness
@Markrfitness · 4:47
It releases the diaphragm, you can get more depth of breath into your lungs. And so there's all sorts of things. And I actually had people who come to me with back problems that I've had for years, and we've worked on their biomechanics. It's been a process along with supports therapy to get rid of the dysfunction in the muscles that were around that area. But they have stayed pain free now for years. And they live with this pain for that 30 years
phil spade
@Phil · 1:47
Robin and Ray, thank you for mentioning form and posture. It's so key. And I've experienced neck, back and shoulder pain, not to a chronic degree, like Sudha, but it's still there are times where I cannot twist my head to the left well, and a lot of that has stemmed from poor posture
Howie Rubin
@Howie · 1:19
And those are absolutely positively the worst thing I could possibly do for my back. So my advice to all you guys out there who are suffering from back pain is before you go to people and before you start to exercise is make sure that you talk to people who know what they're doing
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Mark R Fitness
@Markrfitness · 4:57
When you mentioned the TSL and the It band, and I've worked on as well. So, yeah, I get it. It's a difficult thing to treat. So it sounds like there are many ways to do this. And somehow your physical therapist got you to sort of release that joint a little bit. What I wanted to say it's biomechanics. Biomechanics. You were saying biometrics. I just wanted to correct you
Hey, Sudha, I remember when you posted The Swell a couple of months ago, and I wanted to do a couple of things. One, I wanted to check in with you and see how you were doing. I remember that you were dealing with some pretty bad back problems, so I wanted to know if you're are doing any better. And I actually just found out that, well, I had three epidurals, and now they didn't quite work as well as I'd hoped
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:13
It's been magical for me before you opt in for any surgery. If it's something to do with spinal alignment, then I would strongly recommend the Cairo. And if it is more to do with muscle and nerve, then I have been told that acupuncture and pressure can and do wonders. So based on what the problem really is, just explore those avenues. You never know what you may find