i had a question about swimming and recovering from back surgery. i just wanted some input from anyone that is in or has been in my position. i am 30 and had a microdiscectomy in december 2007 on l4/l5. i was a competitive swimmer until college and that's when the back problems started. ok so enough with the boring stuff, i have finished therapy after about 9 months and i began swimming again. my questions are more related to fears about rehernaition as i am not really sure how my back got messed up so bad in the 1st place. do i need to be worried about reherniation by swimming hard or doing flip turns, or really anything i used to take for granted in the pool? i have had some back spasms this past week on my 'good side' so i am beginning to worry a bit. its been tough because i literally think about every step or movement i make on dry land because i dont want to end up back on that operating table. as you could imagine its stressful :)
any input is appreciated.
I went through some major lower back problems. My MRI revealed a bad disk. I had to quit running and I avoided surgery. I ran the 100, 200 and 400m. I never swam, so swimming was not the cause. I got into the pool and learned how to swim to reinvent myself. I would get alot if spasms and pain trying to learn swimming, but I continued to swim and learn. That was four years ago. I stuck with it and now I do all the strokes, plus about 100 flip turns a day. It just took time and alot of determination. I still get back pain and I must know my limitations, but I can train pretty darn hard.
I think there are real fast swimmers out there who have had back surgery.
I went through some major lower back problems. My MRI revealed a bad disk. I had to quit running and I avoided surgery. I ran the 100, 200 and 400m. I never swam, so swimming was not the cause. I got into the pool and learned how to swim to reinvent myself. I would get alot if spasms and pain trying to learn swimming, but I continued to swim and learn. That was four years ago. I stuck with it and now I do all the strokes, plus about 100 flip turns a day. It just took time and alot of determination. I still get back pain and I must know my limitations, but I can train pretty darn hard.
I think there are real fast swimmers out there who have had back surgery.
