I HAD TO SWEEP THE SNOW OFF MY CAR AND I HAD TO SHOVEL A CLEAR SPOT UNDER THE BIRD FEEDING PLATFORM.
MY BACK BEGAN TO GET ``SOGGY`` AS SOON I DRAGGED MY 24 INCH BOOTS THROUGH THE SNOW FOR A MINUTE.I REMEMBER CLEARLY, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED AFTER I WORKED THREE WEEKS, I HAD TO RECLINE FOR TEN DAYS TO RECOVER SO AS TO DO ANOTHER THREE WEEKS OF WORK AT THE CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILROAD.
MY BACK LACKED THEN, AND LACKS NOW THE ABILITY TO HOLD MY LEGS IN PLACE AND MY BACK WILL WOBBLE AND MY LEGS MIGHT VEER LEFT OR RIGHT. TOO DANGEROUS TO WORK THE SWITCH YARD. IT IS EVEN DANGEROUS HERE ON THE ACREAGE TO HAVE A WOBBLING BACK AND VEERING WALKING.
COLLAPSE DUE TO MY TONIC IMMOBILITY OR SHELL SHOCK IS A DIFFERENT DISABILITY. COLLAPSE (OR CONVULSION) DOES NOT OCCUR AS A GRADUAL LOSS OF STRENGTH AND STABILITY COLLAPSE AND CONVULSION OCCUR INSTANTANEOUSLY.
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Squats and deadlifts cured my Sciatica, and after my prostrate surgery, it returned as I was not allowed to lift. So after I could lift again, squats and deadlifts cured it again, and now I am back on my mountain. Very pleased indeed.
ReplyDeleteGolly gee. ;) For me as I age and stuff breaks down, useful workarounds are how I keep going. About 20 years ago when my right knee started to act up, as my Doctor, a University of Edinburgh graduate, had predicted it might, I remembered a stick my daughter had given me some time before. A very sturdy stick with a steel spike in the end. I learned how to use one, and now I can walk a very long way with little problem.
ReplyDeleteSciatica is really caused by the sciatic nerve that runs from your sacrum , the 5th vertebrae down both legs. Its is the longest nerve in the body. Anyway it snakes through your hip area and sometimes follows the small holes that are there for it to use, on its journey through the hip, and sometimes does not. The problem I self diagnosed, and have had confirmed by several doctors after I explained my thinking, is that as you age muscle just disappears. So what happens is that as the muscle atrophies, the aforementioned nerve, has less and less cushioning as it wends its way through the hip area. Squats and especially Deadlifts easily put muscle back there. As I was crippled by sciatica I had to try to cure my problem. My solution works very well. Just doing the exercises with light weights every few days, it takes just a couple of weeks to uncripple yourself. As I have done it twice, I am confident that for my particular variety of sciatica, it responds well to this treatment.
Did you actually think that the point of lifting weights was to enter body building competitions?
ReplyDeleteHumans lose muscle at about 7% a year after age 30, and almost double that after age 60. That means us old people are very weak, unless we do something about it. We do know that muscle can be built by simple exercises well into the 90's of our lives.
As I am on my own and need to do a number of things that require strength, I lift some weights and do simple body weight exercises for this. I also climb my mountain as that is very good for my heart, which has mild a-fib, a genetic flaw. However the rest of my genes are quite good. I have no need to worry about cholesterol as I cannot get much past 3.6 on the scale where most people have to be careful, and are around 5 on that scale. My mother and all her side of the family routinely make 100 years old. My father's side dies from cancer in their old age. Now I have dodged prostrate cancer and assuming I can keep my strength in a useful range, I might live a long time.
Being weak and crippled for another 25 years does not appeal to me, so although I am very lazy indeed I do something about it.
Complaining which is your strategy, is pointless.