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Excercise more. I have a medical history with a broken spine and a disk literally 1% away from a doctor recommended surgery and my 40 year old ass has no back pain just because I occasionally do core exercises.
Unless you do hard labor for your money, in which case, I’m sorry, you’re toast.
No such thing as a brain fully developing
get exercise, people. Doesn’t have to be a lot, the body is just incredibly lazy and will merrily get rid of your ability to walk if you don’t regularly remind it you still need muscles.
And range of motion and balance. Last time we had a restraint incident I was on the floor bracing my foot on the crossbar under the chair hauling that leg strap back like I was a gotdamn sailor then had to go over and crawl between the security guard’s legs to do it on the other side because my coworker was still tryna figure out how to crouch down like jfc thank god security was already there keepin’ ahold of the guy or we’d all be dead by the time Doris’s knees got low enough (fake name). And at least that was in the hallway, time before that I was vaulting furniture in the patient’s room to get to all the straps. My coworkers always look at me like I’m nuts when I’m climbing and hanging on the furniture at work like a bat then look at me like I’m heavensent when the shit happens. Like I don’t even do anything formally (probably should) I just stop and use the hallway rails like a barre sometimes for funsies. I’ll stand on one leg to help me focus while passing meds or do a split under a counter to put it at waist height and they’ll walk by and ask ‘you good?’ I don’t go anywhere and torture myself for an hour I just make it part of my daily life.
I just ride my bike everywhere it’s possible and try to go for a 30 minute walk at least every other day.
I’m 30 and never had back issues. Either it doesn’t take a lot of movement so stay reasonably healthy or I’m very lucky. (Or my back will kill me in 5 years)Or you’re lucky and don’t have a spine problem that has nothing to do with how much exercise you get…
Like, exercise definitely helps. But the amount of effort some people need to do to be pain free is very different from person to person.
Stretches first thing in the morning help
My physical therapist told me “movement is medicine” and I hate that she was right, because a lot of the time it feels like shit to do!
I had messed up arches when I was little and the doctors didn’t want to do anything about it for the longest time. At like 25 I get a script for PT for really bad back pain and learn that APPARENTLY I have to entirely relearn how to walk because I basically built the entire fucking house on a crocked foundation and now my back is fucked. It’s been over 10 years since then and I still haven’t fully corrected my pelvic tilt and my back still hurts if I walk more than like ten minutes at a time.
I’m sorry, that sounds awful to deal with! PT didn’t really ‘fix’ me either, I still struggle with the pain I went in for, but the exercises and stretches they taught me at least tend to help me keep the worst of it away. I hope the exercises they’ve got you doing give you some relief!
They definitely do help yeah, they’re the only reason I’ve gotten to where I am. My pain used to be a lot worse and I used to be a lot more limited in what I could do. I need to be a little more consistent about them, but that’s mostly just an “It’s been hectic” thing. I can usually do a set here or there in random places throughout the day. That’s usually how I’d get them in because they’re all just random bodyweight exercises which is nice.
IMO top ways to support your back if you spend loads of time sitting:
- running
- deadlifts
- squats
all of the above only work with proper technique tho
Here to pose the viewpoint that at 30 the spine isn’t old, just crushed under the weight of gravity and hasn’t evolved for 2 legged monkeys yet!
also hasn’t evolved for sitting around all day
My back issues started with adolescence 😭
Same tbh. My feet were apparently messed up for years and it left me with severe pelvic tilt and really bad back problems that I’m still trying to correct. Discovered them in my 20s and I’ve been trying to correct it for over a decade and it’s still really bad. Better than it was, but still horrendous.
My spine has always been old, yay mild scoliosis!
your back be like (warning, r*ddit link, though with a privacy-respecting frontend)
Thankfully not nearly that bad, just like 5 degrees off, got a high pain tolerance going for me though, so that’s nice.
My hope is that I can become financially stable before my body gives out. I would really like to travel places, but my body is already feeling it and I’m out of my 20’s.
