Back Pain Support Group
Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical care. In fact, about 3 in 4 adults will experience back pain during their lifetime! The term back pain includes pain affecting the neck, midback and low back. Acute back pain may begin suddenly with intense pain but typically lasts fewer than three months. Usually, chronic back pain is persistent, steady, and...
I wore a back brace for nine months, due to having three back surgeries on my lumbar spine. It has been ayear now, and I still cannot stand up straight! Being in the brace just made my muscles very weak, but I thought that a year of trying to stand up straight would have straitened them out by now....
Has anyone else had this problem and what did you do??
Has anyone else had this problem and what did you do??
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i had a back brace for scoliosis, my muscles never went weak though, i hope you get better:) braces are annoying,lol
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ask your dr to put you in physisical therapy for trunk stregthing it will help you re build those muscles
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I am fuse from L1 to S1, 5 levels. I have been in a back brace for almost nine mths. My surgeon told me that it can take up to two years before the muscles repair themselves. The way it was explained to me is after the surgery the muscles shrink.
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