October 20, 2021 Where’s the pain around waist coming from… the origin? Lately I’ve been having…I’m going to call it a revelation…that my pain around the waist might be primarily attributed to soreness in the gluteus muscles…in plain language, when people talk about pain in the gluteus: they’re referring to your butt. According to Wikipedia: …
This is about the difference between lumbar pain and gluteal soreness. As you know, I AM NOT a doctor. I’m a guy who got a two-level fusion 14 months ago. I spend a considerable amount of time rehabbing and thinking about my surgery: along with researching things about it as they come up. But, I …
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Soreness after pushing activities I notice that activities that involve pushing something…such as pushing a lawn mower or a shopping cart…there seems to be a special type of ouchie that results from those pushing activities. This kind of makes sense when I think of the mechanical position of the body and where the stress is …
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So, I’ve been overdoing it a bit. Of course, I didn’t realize I was overdoing it. I didn’t realize it until the three-muscle gluteus pain started kicking in. AND NOT GOING AWAY! This is always scary in my post-fusion situation because it makes me scared that there’s a problem with the fusion. You know, when …
If I were to try and be as specific as possible about the pain that’s been lingering…what I refer to as a flare-up…I’d say the pain is at the top of the butt…just a bit below the belt line and concentrated a bit more on the left side than the right. What search would I …
