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To: gg cox who wrote (13096)	1/27/2016 12:21:30 PM
From: Yorikke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17054

I agree with that assessment in general. BUT try and tell someone who is suffering from back pain to exercise. It just does not work. Exercise is a great preventative. But when you are engulfed in a episode all you want is relief. I use a weight belt all the time when I work. I hit the heating pad right away, or as soon as I realize what is happening, with my legs elevated and my knees bent. I use the pad to loosen my lower back muscles, and then do some light stretching. I take Ibuprofen because it seems to work for me. Massage is a good help for back pain. I've helped a lot of people by loosening up their gluts and hip muscles and tendons. That allows the back muscles to realign a bit. Active Isolated Stretching is good when one is on the road to recovery. But when you hurt, you hurt, and the best thing to do is take it easy for a couple of days, apply heat and take a light analgesic, ibuprofin, aleve, aspirin, tylenol, whatever works for you. I've had doctors give me a leaflet of exercises when I could hardly walk. They were just tormenting me. They go a kick out of it. OR they were incredibly stupid, or likely both. Unless you have a stenosis, a narrowing of the spinal canal, you are pretty much on your own. Docs can give shots, steroids, and they help, if you take the interlude to rest. But in general they might just as well be leaching you and telling you they are draining the bad blood out of your ass. AIS is the best stretching technique because it demand you do not stress yourself. Fk all the 'Just Do It' crowd, never stress yourself in a stretch, and never listen to the morons who demand you do.