swimmers & mattresses/chairs with good back support
Former Member
Regular swimmers are supposed to have good posture. Does that make it less important for swimmers to use mattresses and chairs with good back support to avoid back pain/injuries? (as an exaggeration, if you do backstroke 4 hours a day, you are on a high-quality "mattress" 4 hours a day:bed: and methinks it's unlikely you would develop back problem due to bad mattress :D)
Parents
Former Member
Do you mean it was caused by swimming, or just happened to be developed during the years of college swimming? Do you think it would have been worse had you stopped swimming?
I don't think so. I believe it to be more a degenerative condition that is maybe inherited. I didn't find out about it until my Junior year when I started having weakness in my back doing flip turns (I was a distance swimmer) in practices. X-rays and MRI showed the condition in the L5 (if I remember right). Options are rest (if it hurts stop doing that!) or surgery with no promises. I always opt for the first choice. It really did end up bugging me and pretty much ending a productive finish to my college career.
Then I played Rugby for 5-years...which was the WORSE thing I could have done. Played softball, mountain bike, lift weights, get fat and old.
So its now part of the reason WHY I'm back in the pool. Sure it bugs me, but not nearly as much if was a couch spud!
Massage, Advil, Chiropractors get me through....when I can do it.
Do you mean it was caused by swimming, or just happened to be developed during the years of college swimming? Do you think it would have been worse had you stopped swimming?
I don't think so. I believe it to be more a degenerative condition that is maybe inherited. I didn't find out about it until my Junior year when I started having weakness in my back doing flip turns (I was a distance swimmer) in practices. X-rays and MRI showed the condition in the L5 (if I remember right). Options are rest (if it hurts stop doing that!) or surgery with no promises. I always opt for the first choice. It really did end up bugging me and pretty much ending a productive finish to my college career.
Then I played Rugby for 5-years...which was the WORSE thing I could have done. Played softball, mountain bike, lift weights, get fat and old.
So its now part of the reason WHY I'm back in the pool. Sure it bugs me, but not nearly as much if was a couch spud!
Massage, Advil, Chiropractors get me through....when I can do it.
