(My office Aeron with lumbar support, and memory foam mattress in the bedroom, had fooled me into thinking I was getting better faster than I actually am. Five minutes in a waiting room chair corrected this misapprehension ...)
I would blame it all on the ancestral error of descending from the trees; others here go further, and insist that emerging from the sea and attempting to exist on land was an appalling mistake which should be reversed without delay.
Others, with lower intellectual aspirations, did not descend from the trees: they fell out and we refer to them as Conservatives. They work unceasingly to ensure that their return to the long-unclimbable trees will be assisted by the rising seas.
@hairyears@cstross@Sonikku can we definitively state that whales and dolphins do not suffer from low back pain? Otherwise is just conjectured to be a way of avoiding low back pain.
I also am not opposed to pushing conservatives into the sea as a pain reduction strategy.
@CharleneTeglia
I was doing these but they're so BORING...made me nuts. I think I just need to get myself into a better frame of mind about them. That said, my problems seem to have shifted from lower back to hips/knees as I started doing yoga more regularly & got a better fit on my bicycle. (I will always have lower back probs, alas, it comes with having a longer-than-ideal torso.) @cstross
@FeralRobots@cstross Yeah, boring, but they do work. I do them while I'm resting between weightlifting sets usually. Or just in the morning when I get up. I think lower back just becomes more of an issue with age alas.
@CharleneTeglia@FeralRobots ... Or with carrying an overloaded backpack home from the shops twice on consecutive days. Oops. (The definition of "overloaded" is a movable feast, it diminishes with age.)
@cstross@CharleneTeglia@FeralRobots This moose finally replaced the "granny truck" (a 2-wheeled shopping basket so old it was actually used by my grandmother) with a 4-wheeled "Hoppa" one from BigRiverCo. Not checking the size was a problem, as it needs both porch doors opening to get it inside (or turning it sideways and lifting it over the step) due to the front wheel spacing. <sigh> But it holds twice as much and I can lean on it for a rest when necessary. Need a wider porch door. 3:O(>
@cstross@CharleneTeglia@FeralRobots
I'm mostly on the flat, but the last 50 yards is uphill and I frequently have to stop for a rest. 60 steps would kill me, I think. (Lifting the trolley over the stupid raised brick semicircle, then the uPVC porch step, then turning it sideways to get the wheels through, then over the front doorstep into the hall, locking all the doors and collapsing in a heap before unloading is /quite/ bad enough TYVM.) 3:O((>
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