Back Pain

[justinbridoux]

Can I have up to date contacts for doctors that can treat back pain ? sciatica to be precise (I sound old when I say that, but I'm actually 24, not that it matters).

Should be obvious, but I already tried massages. Weekly in fact, and the real traditional one. It doesn't help anymore

Thanks for the help

[Sheryl]

Dr. Wicharnand his colleagues at the BNH spine clinic.

If yo have not already, need to have scans to arrive at a proper diagnosis of the cause of the pain. If you have already had these, bring the films with you to avoid unnecessary expense of repeating them.

[tim armstrong]

Hi Justin,

The only thing I'd add to Sheryl's sound advice is my own recent experience of excruciating back pain. I haven't had any X rays yet and still have some residual pain, but I now take about 2-3000 mg of salmon oil daily which seems to work really well. Regards.

[J666]

Hello, diet and losing stress can really help back pain. I damaged my back many years ago and have fixed it using tai chi with the aid of excellent teachers. The Alexander Technique also works and I am pretty sure that there's a teacher for that too in Bangkok. Acupuncture can also help. Good luck with it! Pain is the one thing we all need to avoid!

Jack

[tutsiwarrior]

there is chronic severe back pain for which medical treatment is required and then there is intermittent severe back pain for which one can do a root cause analysis...why does it happen sometimes rather than others? talkin' about sciatica here and here's my take on the latter...

since my early 30s I've had intermittent severe sciatica (lower back pain with the back of the thighs affected the worst) and I associated that with weight gain...there seemed to be a pattern; one time it was so bad that I had to roll across the floor to get to the toilet as any other method was unsustainable...horrible...

recently now in my early 60s the problem has reappeared when my weight has been consistent, I could always lose a few pounds I suppose...and I noticed that the problem appeared every time that I returned home from work overseas where I am usually inconvenienced and generally stressed out; one does pay a price for them big overseas salaries...horrible pain with no sleep...

when at home with the family I'd stay in bed sleeping, reading and cuddling with the wife and the small children and then by the fourth day of inactivity I'd feel the dreaded twinge on the back of one of my thighs and by the next day I was immobile...

then one day my little niece said: 'uncle tutsi you have to cut your hair as you look like a bum...' and I said sobbing: 'I can't walk...'... and she said: 'I shall help you...'... then with a walking stick and her tiny assistance we managed to head down the road to the barber...

we got there late an he was closed but on the way I became strengthened and no longer needed a walking stick ...my little niece took me along to another hairdresser but she was closed as well...it was only 730 pm but this is rural Thailand...and by now I was resurrected...

we returned home after our 45 minute sojourn to shouts of wonder and celebration and I said that it was just moving around that did

it...the niece wondered what all the fuss was about...

so, with the intermittent sciatica I recommend movement....don't let it beat ye...WALK to the barber and get yer hair cut...WALK to the food stall and get yerself a beer...always helps to have a magical, wonderful and beautiful 8 y.o. niece in tow...

[Bagwan]

The last word from the Royal Orthopaedic in Birminghan 11 years ago was 'we give up. we can't find anything physically wrong' but I had a herniated disc some years previously. A consultant at BPH told me to sit up straight and then dismissed me, a charalatan SF guy gave me massage and acupuncture, BPH stretched me until I screamed and then practically roasted me alive. Then I found wonderful Sutima who had spent 2 years at Wat Po and five massage sessions with her cured me. That was 9 years ago. Trouble free ever since.

I'm told that the present attitude in the UK is if there is nothing out of shape they tell patients that they have two options. Stay in bed and moan which means that recovery will take ages or get up and about and ignore the pain which will go away much quicker. Maintaining lordosis is a must.

[VocalNeal]

Dr. Tanin.

Neurologist at Bangkok Christian and Chula.

At Bangkok Christian outpatients on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.