Bowling - other sportsa after back and/or neck surgery

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Hi all - its been real quiet on the groups lately...I hope everyone is doing

well and that is why!

I have a question I had C2-7 fused about 2/1/2 years ago, and L2-S1

decompression and laminectomy about 6 months ago...I am beginning to return to

some activities and bowling is one. I have to gear up and wear some compression

shorts (mostly because of hip issues...) but seem to make it through! But I am

in pain after bowling! I have pretty severe DDD and so none of my discs are

good and I should have had a lumber fusion but no disks could take being the

ones above or below...I am still having lower back pain but sciatica is not a

word I am using right now! I was wondering if ayone uses a brace of any kind

if you are active and if it helps? For lumbar spine for sure...but also for

neck issues!

My neck is I am afraid rearing its painful side again...I am getting sort of

locking up in my left lower arm and hand and sometimes all the way up my

arm...it seems to travel from my wrist back though and it is NOT Carpel tunnel -

I have had that checked...and am getting some tingling/loss of sensation in my

fingers again...so not happy about that..but anyway - wondering about the user

of braces...if anyone can help - THANKS

Praying for those suffering over in Japan today...what a disaster!

mark

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Sent: Fri, March 11, 2011 12:37:20 PM

Subject: Bowling - other sportsa after back and/or

neck surgery

Hi all - its been real quiet on the groups lately...I hope everyone is doing

well and that is why!

I have a question I had C2-7 fused about 2/1/2 years ago, and L2-S1

decompression and laminectomy about 6 months ago...I am beginning to return to

some activities and bowling is one. I have to gear up and wear some compression

shorts (mostly because of hip issues...) but seem to make it through! But I am

in pain after bowling! I have pretty severe DDD and so none of my discs are

good and I should have had a lumber fusion but no disks could take being the

ones above or below...I am still having lower back pain but sciatica is not a

word I am using right now! I was wondering if ayone uses a brace of any kind

if you are active and if it helps? For lumbar spine for sure...but also for

neck issues!

My neck is I am afraid rearing its painful side again...I am getting sort of

locking up in my left lower arm and hand and sometimes all the way up my

arm...it seems to travel from my wrist back though and it is NOT Carpel tunnel -

I have had that checked...and am getting some tingling/loss of sensation in my

fingers again...so not happy about that..but anyway - wondering about the user

of braces...if anyone can help - THANKS

Praying for those suffering over in Japan today...what a disaster!

mark

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re: " Hi all - its been real quiet on the groups lately...I hope everyone is

doing

well and that is why! "

Hello Mark and everyone

I think March (at least where I live in the northeast, NH) can be such a

terrible month, weather wise, we are all just holding our breath waiting for

SRING!. For me the low pressure, icy conditions, never mind the gas prices, has

gotten me sooooo depressed. Never mind the PAIN keeping me up all night. I need

to see some tulips or something...( Palm trees would be nice...

Getting back to things like bowling, with a back condition/surgery, I think you

need to ask, maybe take some lessons from a bowling instuctor. An expert.

Bowlers have issues like everybody does. They can help you enjoy your sport by

changing sometimes simple things you do, stance and whatnot, to take pressure

off the parts that are damanged. All pros do it. Think about it. I know little

about bowling, but I am sure there are different ways to do it. If it were me,

with my back, I would like to do it without bending over a whole lot. I don't

know. Concider it a challenge and develope a new style. JMO.

in NH

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Hi there .I was just checking my emails and noticed your name one this

site. I thought Gees I know from school back in 1977;; I guess her back is

all messed up also. Then I seen NH and knew it wasnt the same McCarthy I

went to school with unless you went to school way up in northern Ontario LOL.

Re: Bowling - other sportsa after back

and/or neck surgery

re: " Hi all - its been real quiet on the groups lately...I hope everyone is

doing

well and that is why! "

Hello Mark and everyone

I think March (at least where I live in the northeast, NH) can be such a

terrible month, weather wise, we are all just holding our breath waiting for

SRING!. For me the low pressure, icy conditions, never mind the gas prices, has

gotten me sooooo depressed. Never mind the PAIN keeping me up all night. I need

to see some tulips or something...( Palm trees would be nice...

Getting back to things like bowling, with a back condition/surgery, I think

you need to ask, maybe take some lessons from a bowling instuctor. An expert.

Bowlers have issues like everybody does. They can help you enjoy your sport by

changing sometimes simple things you do, stance and whatnot, to take pressure

off the parts that are damanged. All pros do it. Think about it. I know little

about bowling, but I am sure there are different ways to do it. If it were me,

with my back, I would like to do it without bending over a whole lot. I don't

know. Concider it a challenge and develope a new style. JMO.

in NH

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Mark a doctor told me 40 years ago that oncehe operated on me L-5 S-1 that the

disc above and below them would be weakened and subjected to rupturing again. He

was so right not even 8 years later it was the one above 10 years later it was

the one below then 10 years later a fusion and 6 years ago all the hardware was

removed. Each surgery was a complete sucess it was me who did more damage by

going out and thinking my life could be normal again. Please be very careful and

remember we are not unbreakable it can happen again. I dont' mean to throw water

on you but this is what happened to me. I am now 60 with 5 surgeries behind me

but I have Arachnoiditis from to many surgeries. I am a lucky one too as I have

complete control of the pain caused by this.Just be careful

Janice

Bowling - other sportsa after back and/or

neck surgery

Hi all - its been real quiet on the groups lately...I hope everyone is doing

well and that is why!

I have a question I had C2-7 fused about 2/1/2 years ago, and L2-S1

decompression and laminectomy about 6 months ago...I am beginning to return to

some activities and bowling is one. I have to gear up and wear some

compression

shorts (mostly because of hip issues...) but seem to make it through! But I am

in pain after bowling! I have pretty severe DDD and so none of my discs are

good and I should have had a lumber fusion but no disks could take being the

ones above or below...I am still having lower back pain but sciatica is not a

word I am using right now! I was wondering if ayone uses a brace of any

kind

if you are active and if it helps? For lumbar spine for sure...but also for

neck issues!

My neck is I am afraid rearing its painful side again...I am getting sort of

locking up in my left lower arm and hand and sometimes all the way up my

arm...it seems to travel from my wrist back though and it is NOT Carpel tunnel

-

I have had that checked...and am getting some tingling/loss of sensation in my

fingers again...so not happy about that..but anyway - wondering about the user

of braces...if anyone can help - THANKS

Praying for those suffering over in Japan today...what a disaster!

mark

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hahaha. Went to Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro NH, graduated in '76. aaaakkkkk

My back was messed up by my overactive antibodies, that keep me so healthy...

cured my flu and attacked my spinal cord. Called TM. I have nerve and

neuropathic damage. Try and explain that kind of pain to a doc. Something like a

person who has lost a leg, and yet the brain still sends pain signals out about

the leg that is not there. The pain is real, to the brain. It is THERE.

Sometimes I would like to strangle some of these idiots.

But yes. Ask a trainer about a sport you are interested in doing. You will find

many things that you might be doing wrong without knowing. After all, their

business relies on cripples, problems (you know what I mean). If all the

non-perfect people quit... they would be out of business. That is what they do.

Re: Bowling - other sportsa after back

and/or neck surgery

re: " Hi all - its been real quiet on the groups lately...I hope everyone is

doing

well and that is why! "

Hello Mark and everyone

I think March (at least where I live in the northeast, NH) can be such a

terrible month, weather wise, we are all just holding our breath waiting for

SRING!. For me the low pressure, icy conditions, never mind the gas prices, has

gotten me sooooo depressed. Never mind the PAIN keeping me up all night. I need

to see some tulips or something...( Palm trees would be nice...

Getting back to things like bowling, with a back condition/surgery, I think

you need to ask, maybe take some lessons from a bowling instuctor. An expert.

Bowlers have issues like everybody does. They can help you enjoy your sport by

changing sometimes simple things you do, stance and whatnot, to take pressure

off the parts that are damanged. All pros do it. Think about it. I know little

about bowling, but I am sure there are different ways to do it. If it were me,

with my back, I would like to do it without bending over a whole lot. I don't

know. Concider it a challenge and develope a new style. JMO.

in NH