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I am getting a little pissed off with my neck / back pain at the moment. i have visited chiropractors and physio massagers and physios who have cracked me stretched me massaged me and hooked me up to machines and passed electricity through me and blah blah blah - but i still suffer from constant pain, discomfort and occasional spasms!!!

has anyone gone through anything similar and how was it rectified (if it was?!). i have stopped jumping for the past 3 weeks as my physio seemed to think regular climbs and slider down deployments may be something to do with it!?!?! - but even with 2 visits a week and regular exercise and NO JUMPING! it has not progressed to recovery! its fucking me off!

I may as well go jump and be in discomfort then not jump and be in discomfort!!!

any light at the end of this tunnel??? any ideas where i should look for relief (not that sort of relief "iam"!! )

Have you tried any alternative therapy ? (accupuncture etc..)

I have heard great things about these 'new' medical arts, although i also hear its not everyones cup of tea.

be ground crew,your good at it

You better heal before i come to UK again...

Your only saying that because your sex life is as busy as your jumping life!!!

A little bit of light relief always takes my mind of any pain albeit temporary

its never light when you are involved!!

I have found a moist heating pad to be a godsend. Unlike a regular pad, it creates moist heat which increases blood flow to the area (relaxes muscles and stimulates healing).

I suffer chronic pain from multiple injuries (neck, back, knees).Unfotunatly i have run the gamut of diognosis and treatment and have reached some grim conclusions;

1. Physical Therapy is a waste of time (unless your therapist is real cute). Go a few times, learn the exercises, do the stuff at home.

2. In my opinion Chiropractors have little impact, aside from the shock they impart from their arguable treatments.
They love to show you the 'good spine bad spine' pictures, and tell you how misaligned you are, but what they fail to mention is that the good spine is someone who has lived a charmed life, and the bad spine is all the rest of us.

3. The most barbaric prospect of all is to see a real doctor and get some drugs; in some cases they work, hence the name 'painkiller'. If you dont like narcotics, ask about Tramadol (Ultram), it's non narcotic, works well on moderate pain, does not dull your senses, and actually makes you feel a little froggy.
lots of unbiased drug info can be found on erowid.com and poppies.org.
I have received several epidurals, and though they sting a bit, Im good to go for months, you might want to assess the risk vs.benefit but for me it is worth it.
Given our chosen paths, the light at the end of the tunnel is probably the gleam of titanium replacement parts.