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Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
#22- A good full body workout routine with some weights to build core strength. I avoid really heavy weights since that can increase my odds of having bad form to compensate and then hurting myself. Just sticking to light and medium weights has been very beneficial.
- Use a standup desk for part of the day.
- Look up some physical therapy moves for the specific part of your back which hurts and do them a few times a week when you wake up or go to bed. My pain is usually in my mid back, and I discovered a couple moves which have helped reduce the occurrences of spasms.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
#23Pain free since lifting weights. Barbell squats. Barbell Medicine.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
#241-getting a standing desk to stop sitting for 8 hours straight
2-doing excercises that both strengthen and stretch muscles in your core (back and front) and your thighs (e.g squats, planks, to Romanian deadlifts, etc)
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
#251) Attempt exercises gleaned from the internet; 2) Fail. Back pain unchanged or worse; 3) Go to a real M.D. doctor; 4) Doctor orders X-rays of back; 5) Obtain specific diagnoses, and referral to Physical Therapist; 6) Physical Therapist reviews chart, assigns specific exercises for problem; 7) Back pain gets better.
Sometimes, there's no substitute for finding out what is actually going on.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
#26In addition to working out and generally improving my health, I had an ergonomic review done of my workspace. The biggest win was moving to a split keyboard, since I was hunching up my shoulders with a "normal" keyboard.
It also helped to raise up my monitors to a consistent height that removed the need to tilt my head down, but the split keyboard completely solved some neck and shoulder pain issues.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
#27If the pain is severe, you will not be able to exercise. Only painkillers will help)
If the pain is intermittent. You may have a muscle spasm. Slow warm-up exercises may help. For example, the "cat-dog" exercise. Do 10-15 repetitions, then put ice on it for 5 seconds. This will allow the blood to circulate. To get rid of back or neck pain, you need the blood to circulate in the problem area and thus nourish the spinal column.
Also problems are often caused by lack of mobility. You become bony. You have to at least do some warming up.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
#28Lose weight, quit tech, go do something that involves more moving and less sitting in one position tensing the same muscles repeatedly forever.
Not a troll post. I did this. It worked.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
#29If you're currently injured, swimming is the best exercise.
Re: Ask HN: How do you deal with neck and back pain?
#30Anyone have a desk chair with good neck support? I just finished getting rid of a $1500 Steelcase Gesture with OEM neck rest because it was doing jack-diddly-squat for my head and neck.