mccamy@squirt.DEC (01/11/85)
From: "...decvax!decwrl!rhea!Squirt!McCamy" Merrimack, New Hampshire I have seen a lot of discussion about back pain in the last year. I would like to tell you about my experience with back pain and how I have solved the problem. I had many episodes of severe muscle spasms from about April through August of 1984. These spasms totally disabled me for an average of three to five days at a time. I've never been through torture like that before. Each time I would try to move, my back muscles would tighten up into a "knot" and it feels like you've just been electrocuted. Anyway, nobody could help me. To make a long story short, I found that what was causing my back problems was situps. A couple of weeks before I started having my back problems, (which I have never had before), I decided to get my body in tiptop shape. I especially wanted to firm-up my slight potbelly. Well, situps, to me, seemed to be the answer for getting rid of my potbelly. But, it also turned out to be injuring my back. I now still exercise, but to firm up my stomach I do leg lifts. I have had no trouble with my back since. Situps may be fine for someone else, but for some reason my back can't handle it. My final point is this: There are a lot of people who have back problems. I was one of them, and I thought there was no hope in solving the problem. I did, however, find a solution to my particular problem, and it was simply to stop doing situps. There may be a lot of you out there that are having back problems, when the solution could be a very simple one. Every back is different, and finding your back's likes and dislikes is not a simple task. I lucked out. Good luck to all of you. I hope you can find a simple solution to your problems. -------------------- Please note that this mail message is likely to be incomplete. The sender aborted the transmission. RHEA::MAILER-DAEMON --------------------