Any doctors on this forum.......

[krhall]

are there any doctors on this forum?

[Warthog]

Medical GP doctors you mean?

[krhall]

Oh yeah should've pointed that out.......a Dr of archiology would be no good!

[Warthog]

Consider me no good then :-P

[hovis]

Dr rich

[muffles]

What's the problem?














Can't help, just being nosy... http://www.pistonheads.com/inc/images/getmecoat.gif

[krhall]

Got a dodgy back and I don't think that the NHS are doing that great with it? Just wanted to see if there was anyone on here who might be able to offer advice as I am getting a bit desperate.........I know it sounds dodgy asking a bike forum but I am running out of places to turn.

[muffles]

Ooh you wanna fix it so you can get the GSX-R! Won't be so fun otherwise...

Sorry still no help am I! :eek:

[krhall]

Actually the stretching out helps - another reason I have given to the missus for the gsxr!!!

Got to knock the Sv out first!

[Lou M]

I've got a dodgy back (by the way I'm not a doctor!) and I bought a TENS machine, best thing I've ever done! It clears it within a couple of days!

Lou x

[krhall]

I had a go on one of them when mrs.H was pregnant........

[G]

A physio once said to me, 'you have a bad back for life, it only ever gets worse'

I believe this to probably be true, one of my many reasons for not being as active as i used to be is my back........and my knees......and my ankles.....:eye:

[krhall]

That is very encouraging, thanks!

[G]

That is very encouraging, thanks!

Its rubbish, I have tried most things, my back has never ever been the same after I had a lumbar puncture performed when i was ill in hospital.

My work mate has private healthcare through work and has been trying all sorts, he has even gone to the extent of have pain killer injected directly into pain nerves in his back. Still didnt work. His case is a little different to most though.

[krhall]

It is really starting to p1ss me off. I am currently running 35-40 miles per week just to stop the pain. That is just ridiculous.......

I have even tried acupuncture and I hate needles. That was cr@p too.

I have no idea where to turn next I have had an MRI and a bone scan but both were inconclusive.

[the white rabbit]

Dr rich

Incorrect. I teach med ones to be incompetent but I am a PhD type one, personally. I do undertake examinations, but patients need to be between 21 and 30, in good health, and female ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/characters/images/13thduke.jpg

[Ceri JC]

Incorrect. I teach med ones to be incompetent but I am a PhD type one, personally. I do undertake examinations, but patients need to be between 21 and 30, in good health, and female ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/characters/images/13thduke.jpg

Oddly enough, my GP rides a GS1200 too. What is it with you medical types and BMWs? :)

[Colby]

Depending on what the problem with your back is you could try a osteopath to diagnose WHERE in your back has a problem then speak to a Pilates instructor to give you exercises to strengthen the muscles in that part of the back. Worked for me, I have a weak L4/5 disc/vertebrae and the exercises have helped a lot.

[Warthog]

Bellerophon? I think he is a paramedic.

[Stingo]

It is really starting to p1ss me off. I am currently running 35-40 miles per week just to stop the pain. That is just ridiculous.......

I have even tried acupuncture and I hate needles. That was cr@p too.

I have no idea where to turn next I have had an MRI and a bone scan but both were inconclusive.


Do you have arthritis?

[krhall]

nah - I was tested for that when I did the bone scan. I think it is actually muscular and not in my back but my, buttock.

[stewart-250]

Both me and my other half have had bad backs in recent years and we have both been fixed by firstly visiting a good chiropractor and then a sports therapist.
If your skeleton is slightly out of alignment then your muscles tense up to try to lock down that part of your body. The chiropractor can put you back into the right shape but you need to get a sports therapist to give you a deep massage to get all the knots and tension out of the muscles or the tension in the muscles will pull you back out of shape. The sports therapist will then set you up an exercise program to build strength into any weak muscles around your back which will help stop the problem coming back.
It's hard work, and be warned expensive but at the end of he day you can't put a price on your health.

If you do go to a chiropractor, osteopath or sports therapist try to get a recomendation for a good one. Personal recomendation counts for everything when trying to pick somebody relating to healthcare.

best of luck

Stewart

[krhall]

I have just been seaking to a chiropractor, something I haven't yet tried and he mentioned the piriformis could be the issue here........might give him a try. I do take on board the recommendation thing though. Thanks

[wyrdness]

I have just been seaking to a chiropractor, something I haven't yet tried and he mentioned the piriformis could be the issue here........might give him a try. I do take on board the recommendation thing though. Thanks

I get piriformis syndrome. It affects my hip and leg, rather than my back. This stretch can help a lot:
http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/piri.2.html

There's some useful information on the net if you google for it.

The chiropractor that I went to was awful - expensive and using cult-like mind-control techniques to try to keep you coming back and paying. And they were calling themselves 'Doctors' without medical degrees, which I believe is illegal. I went to a very good osteopath, but she couldn't do a lot about the piriformis. I ended up seeing a specialist, who didn't really suggest much except suggest the above stretch and refer me to a physiotherapist. The physio did help a lot and it's been nowhere as bad since.

[the white rabbit]

I And they were calling themselves 'Doctors' without medical degrees, which I believe is illegal.

They may have 'bought' themselves an MD or more likely a PhD from somewhere disreputable :smt093.

[wyrdness]

They may have 'bought' themselves an MD or more likely a PhD from somewhere disreputable :smt093.

They were displaying their qualifications - Batchelors degrees in Chiropractic (one of them may have had a Masters). I don't believe that they entitle anyone to call themselves Doctor, which they were.

[barryrs]

I went to see a chiropractor and she did a great job sorting my back out, my brother went to see a different chiropractor and the guy told him he would need 5 courses of treatment at £30 a pop without even looking at him.

As with everything you get good ones and bad ones.

[the white rabbit]

They were displaying their qualifications - Batchelors degrees in Chiropractic (one of them may have had a Masters). I don't believe that they entitle anyone to call themselves Doctor, which they were.

I *think* you can call yourself what you like, as long as there is no intention to mislead or defraud. Which it would seem here there would be, as if in any medical or quasi-medical profession you call yourself Doctor, people expect you to be a ...Doctor. I would report them.

[the white rabbit]

I went to see a chiropractor and she did a great job sorting my back out, my brother went to see a different chiropractor and the guy told him he would need 5 courses of treatment at £30 a pop without even looking at him.

As with everything you get good ones and bad ones.

Thats very true in the case of a lot of alternative paramedicine, from what I can work out. I'm sure the good ones dispair at the bad ones bringing the 'profession' into direpute. As with real doctor's as well.

[Pedrosa]

Sorry to hear aboutpeople's ailments here. I am not a medical doctor although I do have more than a passing interest in gynaecology if that is any help?:rolleyes: