Rehabilitating lower back blog

[Old New Golfer]

If it's ok. I'd like to use this thread to log my rehabilitation on my lower back. I've come back to golf to do only just that. You can look at my intro post to see more about me. I'd also appreciate any suggestions.

I have this lower back injury. It was from a spin. Falling on ice. Feet just flew out from under me. I grabbed the handle on the truck to break my fall. When my body spinning reached the end. My body spun like like a whip. Stopped locked at the hips.

I've tried different things to rehabilitate. Geesh...a year now and I've made no progress in leg curls at the gym. I admit that I don't have alot of free time. I drive a truck all week all across the country. Which hurts me. I admit I had just about rehabilitated 7 years ago before going OTR truck driving.

I have found out my spine must have been pulled apart. One day I helped carry something heavy. My pain went away. It was soothing.

I have had no good with doctors. They just say we'll worry about the legs later.

I was figuring that with the turning in golf. I may effectively rehabilitate my lower back. Building back up the muscles. Right now I'm thinking I was right.

First day I went to a store to pick up a long iron to work with this. Hit some balls. Picked up four clubs. Dummy me dumped over a grand. But noticing my lower back ache is different this morning. Yesterday after hitting the balls. My lower back felt better. I'm rationalizing I haven't had the strength in my lower back that I did when I played golf for most of my life. That's what I'm needing back.

Lets see here. I'll post my progress if it's ok with you people.

[Donn lost in San Diego]

The Alexander Technique.  I call it slow motion yoga.  You go for 4 or 5 sessions, then you are on your own.  It is a method to re-learn proper posture while standing, sitting, walking.  Once your brain gets used to "normal", your soft tissue will face less stress and less uneven push and pull.  It is like golf lessons:  it feels odd at first because it is different.  Eventually you change to a new, anatomically correct, normal. I have pretty severe scoliosis and kyphosis, which is curved forward upper 1/3 of the spine.  The head is pushed forward.  I used to suffer neck and shoulder pains.  No more.  I had nerve entrapment in both elbows, from using the computer mouse and pushing my elbows outward, stretching the ulnar nerve too much.  I spent 3 years on disability, the first part I couldn't even use a steak knife.  Surgery removed the scar tissue that was wrapped around the nerve, and Alexander work made me less susceptible to ongoing upper body problems.  It might work for you.   I am now 69, 25 years removed from the elbow nerve pain, my swing speed is mid 80s.  I hit A flex driver and 3 wood, and reg flex the rest of the way.  Just type in Alexander Technique and find a practitioner.  They are low key, do not advertise much.