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The day before yesterday I was bending slightly at the hips to set a tray of little potted plants on a table and strained my lower back. It made two very palpable sort of twinges, twinges that I practically heard as cartoonish sound effects.
I HAVE had strains in my back before, but never with such a THWOP! feeling. Also possibly they didn't hurt quite as much, I don't really remember. And also they were never for no comprehensible reason. Like, I always knew why my back was pissed before. After I got home I googled it and found out it's actually not uncommon for people's backs to do this in response to common everyday movements as they get older, so... yay. I'm only 39! And I guess I should do warm-ups and cool downs in the future (before work, I mean, not before putting things on tables, or walking, or bending slightly... and that might still help even though, in this case, all I was doing was bending slightly to put something on a table...).
Also I found out after I got home that I missed the critical right-after window when I should have put ice on it, but it's cold - it was like -12° at the time. I didn't want to put ice on me; I'm already cold enough! I never like icing things anyway.
I HAVE had strains in my back before, but never with such a THWOP! feeling. Also possibly they didn't hurt quite as much, I don't really remember. And also they were never for no comprehensible reason. Like, I always knew why my back was pissed before. After I got home I googled it and found out it's actually not uncommon for people's backs to do this in response to common everyday movements as they get older, so... yay. I'm only 39! And I guess I should do warm-ups and cool downs in the future (before work, I mean, not before putting things on tables, or walking, or bending slightly... and that might still help even though, in this case, all I was doing was bending slightly to put something on a table...).
Also I found out after I got home that I missed the critical right-after window when I should have put ice on it, but it's cold - it was like -12° at the time. I didn't want to put ice on me; I'm already cold enough! I never like icing things anyway.
