I actually knew since I was 14 that my back was damaged goods since I was diagnosed with flat back syndrome. The doctor said that its a 100% that eventually you will need back surgery, its just matter when. So he pushed me to start exercising in order to postponed it as much as I could. I did at my 45. The doctor said that is a miracle that I hold until that age and it's part genetic (huge tolerance to the pain) plus the good care that I took my body. I became eligible for the hybrid lumbar surgery exactly because of that. That care actually helped me to recover beautifully. In less than 1.5 years I am pain free ,there is nothing to remind me what ive been through other than 20cm scar in my belly and another 20cm scar in my lower back. I have the clearance to do what ever I like except boxing, but that's OK, I am not a kid anymore.ropjhk wrote:moderndarwin wrote:Greek wrote:I was 33 with a newborn boy, my sciatica almost paralyzed my right leg, I had drop foot, i couldn't even hold him. Physiotherapy helped me to hold for almost a decade while I was doing long distances cycling both road and mountain until it came back. I had a pain from my calfs and below. MRI showed 2 broken discs, 6 doctors scared me, keep going keep postponed it. Until one disc in my upper body broke as well. My fingers and my right tricep was paralyzed and I couldn't move my head north and south. I had to make an urgent surgery else was in danger for a permanent nerve damage. Its a miracle, the next day I had totally zero pain i could do everything I wanted. I showed to my doctor my old MRI, he told me are you **** kidding me? With that back you where doing 200km rides regularly? Doc can you fix me? Yes I can! His answer. I went through a hybrid lumbar surgery, (google it) spondylodesis plus an artificial disc from titanium. 10 hours of surgery. 5 months after I went for 15km of hiking, one year after I do 70km rides, the only thing that is holding me back from more its my fear and the 10kg of weight that I got. Medically the only thing left is just my scars. For 1st time after 12 years I have zero back pain. But again I am not any close to an elite athlete, I am just an IT engineer
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this is an insane story. why don’t you just you know ease up and do less strenuous activities. i used to hoop but now i retired from hoops and mostly just go for long walks and try to consistently stretch.
Sometimes we're in denial of our abilities as we age.
Sport fans take inspiration from athletes who have pushed the limits of human physicality. Sometimes we take too much inspiration.
Now as far as my athletic abilities what ive lost most is my jumping, its like having cement in my legs, and lost some flexibility and of course part of my endurance.
The fact is that the modern medicine has been advanced so much in the last 10 15 years that injuries like mine that in the past was death sentence for your quality of life now can be treated with amazing results and be accessible to the average Joe like me. Imagine an elite athlete as LeBron with unlimited access to the best.
Yes is really unfortunate situation but can be fixed now with amazing results and I am the prove for that
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