We have a swimmer that has been complaining about back pain after a L5-S1 microdiskectomy. She only has pain while kicking flutter/free and not *** stroke. Any thoughts about alleviating the pain, exercises or other conditioning to help?
Thanks,
Bill Cleveland
Red River Masters
Shreveport, LA
I just reread your post and see that kicking is actually worse, maybe it is flared right now and she needs to just rest her back. Also I never use a pull buoy (as if I need flotation for my thighs!) as it puts too much stress on my lower back.
For some reason my surgeon wanted my arms down for a long time, somehow that was hard on the surgery site. And I could really feel it pulling when I stretched too far.
I just reread your post and see that kicking is actually worse, maybe it is flared right now and she needs to just rest her back. Also I never use a pull buoy (as if I need flotation for my thighs!) as it puts too much stress on my lower back.
For some reason my surgeon wanted my arms down for a long time, somehow that was hard on the surgery site. And I could really feel it pulling when I stretched too far.
