Muscle strain in lower back

Lower back pain rarely goes away - See a doctor immediately!!

Yes, see a Dr asap. DO NOT stretch, twist, etc! Probably muscle strain, but could involve nerves. Heat pack & ice may help a little, with motrin/advil for inflamation, till you get diagnosis. 

Are you a pitcher?

Not an uncommon injury for a pitcher - probably batters too?  Both of our baseball/pitcher sons have dealt with this more than once.

Advice above is spot on - see a doctor.  He/she will give you exercises and you will need to rest from the repetitive functions in baseball.  Good news is it will get better if you follow the doctor's orders.

Where are you located?  Perhaps I can recommend a good doc in your area.  Feel free to PM me.

baseballmom posted:

Yes, see a Dr asap. DO NOT stretch, twist, etc! Probably muscle strain, but could involve nerves. Heat pack & ice may help a little, with motrin/advil for inflamation, till you get diagnosis. 

Are you a pitcher?

Thank you for advice ....I play second base, pulled my back while hitting...talked to trainer at school and he said he thinks it's definitely a muscle strain.

1. You should see a doctor no matter what the trainer thinks. 

2. Lower back muscle strains will take 1-3 weeks to clear up (if that is what it is). Even then you could still get flare-ups. 

3. Best thing is REST. 

Good luck. 

Find a good Chiropractor.  If you are in the DC metro area, I can recommend one.

I would not see a chiropractor. 

If it's muscle strain, only time & rest, some light massage & heat therapy. Exercising will aggravate it. Sleep with a pillow or 2 between legs, to keep hips parallel. I'd stay on a 4 hr schedule of Advil for 2-3 days to reduce the inflammation...Tylenol won't work. 

Please... a chiropractor "worth his/her salt" should be able to resolve the issue in 1-3 treatments.  It's important to understand the actual mechanisms of injury; almost all true "muscle strains" will resolve themselves within 24 hours, if it doesn't there's something else going on and a good chiropractor can definitely help.

structuredoc posted:

Please... a chiropractor "worth his/her salt" should be able to resolve the issue in 1-3 treatments.  It's important to understand the actual mechanisms of injury; almost all true "muscle strains" will resolve themselves within 24 hours, if it doesn't there's something else going on and a good chiropractor can definitely help.

I will say that most of my adult life I thought of chiropractors as "witch doctors" and "scam artists." However, after my son experienced a pulled glute last year, and after doctor visits and after spending weeks with a Physical Therapist, my wife talked me into letting him go to a chiropractor. Bam! Pain gone. I now take him every couple of weeks for an adjustment and he comes out of every session having lost all the aches and pains he entered the office with. I've still never been to a chiropractor myself, but I'm now convinced by my experience with my son that they can do miracles for everyday strains, aches, and pains.

Some of you crack me up. 

Bulldog 19 posted:

Some of you crack me up. 

Same brother!

baseballmom posted:

I would not see a chiropractor. 

If it's muscle strain, only time & rest, some light massage & heat therapy. Exercising will aggravate it. Sleep with a pillow or 2 between legs, to keep hips parallel. I'd stay on a 4 hr schedule of Advil for 2-3 days to reduce the inflammation...Tylenol won't work. 

 

Very helpful thank you

i have injured my back weight training on 2 separate occasions.  x-rays showed nothing either time.  very tight and stiff.  hard to even put my socks on. very frustrating.  i visited a chiropractor for both injuries.  for the first injury i don't think it helped very much.  for the second injury, it actually made it worse.  what did work was a 6 day methylprednisolone dose, a series of stretches performed twice a day, ibuprofrin after the oral steroid, and rest.  here are the stretches.  http://solentmuscletherapy.co....g-for-back-pain.html

Baseballmom has good advice and may have had a bad experience with a chiropractor.  I will add that they do the massage and heat and just because you are in a chiropractors office does not mean he should provide spinal adjustment.  I've been to two types.  The first would adjust on both sides regardless of symptoms - never going to this type again.  The second traveled with the US Olympic track team and only adjusted as necessary.  I had an issue and will not bore you with the details, but depending on how I felt and what he saw that day, he would not adjust, no massage, no heat, no charges, or anything except talk about my plan outside the office to keep me moving forward with my plans.  I put him in the type you want to find bucket. 

Do you go to a chiropractor for ulcerative colitis and he gives you methylprednisolone?  Nice

my primary physician prescribed the methylprednisolone and i felt 75% better the same day.  it was a godsend.  it restored almost full mobility within 24 hrs.  eliminated 90% of all pain.  i rested and did the stretches and then advil the second week.  this worked for my injury.    i had visited the chiro for 2 weeks prior to going back to primary.  my chiro cannot prescribe medication.  

I'm sure you know I was trying to be funny.  There are lots of doctors out there good and bad.  Find the good ones and stay with them.

Not every injury requires running straight to the doctor. Most aren't going to tell you anything different than the AT anyway, except they may be even more conservative than necessary. We treat low backs here all the time. Give them one week and see how they respond. Have had two come back as stress fractures. The first one our doctor even saw in the ATR and agreed with us. Kid saw him in office 4 weeks later and that's when it was discovered. We work closely with our team doctors for this reason...