It's literally science
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mouse Quest player core
inari@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
When did you take this picture of me??
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Actually my back hurts because your mother damaged it with her large mass when we were engaged in coitus.
Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I read coitus as combat. Makes sense I suppose
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
combat is implied. if you’re doing it right.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
This guy pegs
eru@mouse.chitanda.moe 2 weeks ago
real solution for most people would be to start exercising
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Exactly right. Just a bit of exercise every week is enough to get stronger muscles and no pain in back or anywhere else. At least that worked for me, and its easy to do.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stretching too, it doesn’t have to be complicated like yoga, just find a doorjamb and put your arm against it or push against a wall or something, try to touch your toes, raise your arms, breath deep and hold your positions, don’t wiggle or lunge, just stop where you feel a pull and hold it, try to cover all your major support areas.
untorquer@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Well this and a shorter work day/week so one doesn’t have to chose between a social life, a healthy body, home upkeep, child care, and self care. Maybe sprinkle in some accessible and free healthcare both physical and mental. Idk, wouldn’t be the first time i was wrong about something.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
While all of these things would obviously be great, you still need to do the exercise.
oatscoop@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
That sounds like a lot of work …
Are you sure there aren’t easy solutions that only involve spending money and not effort? Maybe a pill or expensive chair?
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Nah it’s because I don’t have enough monitors.
Need a 4th one to balance things out nicely
blx@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
But then you won’t have a middle one to look straight ahead. Go for 5 instead
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Nah, need to go straight to 9, 3x3 matrix. It’s acceptable to pause at 6 if you are budget conscious.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Time to up the resolution
ceenote@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TL;DR your back hurts because you’re poor.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Nah, OP is just being elitist trying to justify those purchases.
The real answer is posture and lack of streching and exercize. Unless you have an underlying issue like scoliosis, stretching and exercize fix 90% of the aches and pains young people whine about with “getting old” in their 30’s.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yo I swear by my trackball mouse. Vertical mice are trash tho, complete placebo I’m sure of it.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Well actually the worst thing for posture is having the same all the time so sit/stand desk are rly helpful if you use them by shifting you position.
remedia@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’m a personal trainer, I’ve destroyed two lumbar discs, gotten disc replacement surgery and currently working with a physiotherapist to get back on track. Back pain can have many causes. Anything from disc degeneration to muscle imbalances. If you’re not in pain that prevents you from doing them, there are a few exercises my physiotherapist has me doing.
- Glute bridge to activate your glutes. Underactive glutes can cause you to compensate with your lower back muscles, causing overuse.
- Prone cobra for strengthening your back muscles.
- Plank and side plank for strengthening your abdominals, obliques and deeper core muscles
- Lying hamstring stretch. Tight hamstrings, common in people who are sedentary or sit a lot for work, can cause referred lower back pain.
- Kneeling hip flexor stretch. Hip flexors are also commonly tight in people who are sedentary or sit a lot. Can cause a muscle imbalance with the posterior chain, altering the length-tension relationship in the muscles.
But if you have more severe lower back pain, go see a doctor and get an MRI if necessary to find out if there’s something going on with your discs. Don’t just try to work through pain and ignore the problem. That’s what I did, and it just made things worse. You may not necessarily need surgery, but it’s good to find the root cause so you know what options you have.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I popped my two discs around L5. So far I’m trying to avoid surgery, pain is mostly under control at the moment but I’ve had extreme ups and downs for the last few months so…
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t know exactly what these are based on your descriptions, but I went through physical therapy and was given some stretches/exercises that do for sure help some. It isn’t a “cure”, but as you said, if you have back pain and can do them, you should be trying to.
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ty for this
Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I suffered a slipped L5-S1 disc last Nov - suffering symptoms of pain and numbness in my left upper calf and outer side of my left foot. I did an MRI in Dec and there was nerve compression found and a degenerating L5-S1 disc.
Eventually the pain went away and the numbness became much less obvious but the doctors I saw recommended microdisectomy to avoid further potential damage to the nerve.
Immediately after the op (I did it 20th Feb) I did feel better but one or two days later the numbness returned stronger than before the op. Now on medication to try and see if the inflammation is temporary or something long term. Sigh
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Your back hurts because you keep the same posture even when your body tells you not to.
When you have a job, and say work for 3-4 hours, your body will tell you to stop and do something else for a couple hours. But you can’t cause life.
The ergonomic stuff are fulfilling their purpose by giving you a decent posture, your just holding it too long.
This is also why being rich would be a solution, even those who are rich but work, they aren’t working 40 hours every week nonstop. It’s also why they are so keen that “golf meetings” are so effective.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
About the golf meetings:
I made up a story around it. Basically, golf is a metaphor for business. You gotta get the ball (yourself) into the hole (your target). Sometimes, you can’t do it in one step, so you require multiple steps to approach your goal. In any case, you take big steps in the beginning, and then as you get closer you need to become more gentle and delicate to not miss the perfect spot.
arcine@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
It’s true ! I have all three, and now my legs and upper back hurt instead !
Thank you, ergonomics !
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Seems like Workrave is also available on Linux. Did you not know that or did you recommend RSIBreak for Linux because you think it’s better?
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
have standing desk, always lowered
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I have all those things, but my back hurts because I fucked it up on my 20’s moving file cabinets at a minimum wage job.
I do consider it the reason i don’t have carpal tunnel after 30 years of IT/Code/Sysadmin though.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The last time I hired a few people to help me move, I gave each one an extra $30 just to get themselves a goddamn back brace, that shit makes me worried when I see young people yanking heavy shit around like it’s not doing anything to their bodies.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
“Hmmm, I’m going to write you a prescription for 75% more RGB LED backlighting”
doug@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I hate that planking is the best exercise for strengthening your lower back. They’re just so boring to do.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can spice them up with alternating leg raises or do a superman or bird dog. There are also loads of other exercises that work. The best exercise isn’t the most effective one, it’s the one you actually do consistently
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
The best exercise is the one you actually do
That’s how I finally got to exercise regularly. First, I spend way too long trying to hype myself up for running. Never happened. I hate running. No amount of convenience can convince me. Then I started hiking and yoga and swimming and whatever came my way. Sure, I don’t have any sort of routine, but I do some sport very regularly!
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I did planking for about a thousand years (or so it felt) and it didn’t really help at all. What did help massively was dumbbell swings! In just a couple of days my back pain was like 90% gone, totally gone today.
I’m quite tall, so YMMV.
MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Tall back pain person here. Gonna try this
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Pushups are also great, also helps with breasts that get easily fucked with your shoulders laying forwards while on computer long days. That shit got me so bad I had to take sick leave for a week due to shoulder pain
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
helps with breasts that get easily fucked
I am listening
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Deadlifts would like a word!
Also they are more fun, you feel like a super hero that can lift a house, and it’s a compound lift!
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Agreed. Planks and cardio are my downfall because they are mind numbingly boring
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s the best part about cardio. You can do so many other things while doing it. … OK well, not lots of different things, but once you’re past the hell of getting into a shape, you kindof just zone out into the music/podcast/video/what ever and huffpuff away for a while while entertained.
If you go to a gym, some even have theatre rooms filled with treadmills/etc and a movie playing.
West_of_West@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
While dumb expensive the Aeron chair makes sitting at a desk all day do able and not painful.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’ve come down in price and there are actually better options out there now.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agree. You can also find them second hand at pretty decent prices
GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
No it hurts cause I do manual labor
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I could have sworn it was due to the severe injury I sustained, but who am I to argue with science?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
no, my lower back hurts because i got impaled there. it hurts less because i have a chair with a double rocker and well positioned monitors
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Could also be kidney stones
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I use a trackball mouse. That must be why my back is doing great.
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Jokes on you! I do all of that and it still hurts!
sheridan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I tried a standing desk and it made my back pain a lot worse.
orionsbelt@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
split keyboard recs?
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Oh good, I thought it was from the repeated hard pounding in the ass.
lengau@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I use all three of those and my back hurts more.
salty_chief@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did all that, turns out it is just Cervical Spondylosis.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What if you’re in construction?
Godric@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can anyone reccomend a split keyboard? I bought one last week, but it’s tiny and lacks FN keys and holding down alt practically curls my thumb into my pinkie.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you used an and operator instead of xor.
sorry, your statement is false and my back hurts because…
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I use none of those and my lower back is fine. Lifting weights fixed all that shit almost immediately.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m using a “laying chair” which is superior for posture
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YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Still better than AI slop.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
This had me actually giggle out loud.
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Looks Like someone needs a Paleo Chair 😁
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(350-450€)
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🖥️🦐
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
dude i want the emperor too, i will save up another car’s worth for my chair
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Who let you in my house?
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I actually do this sometimes, feels good
Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Until you actually need to stand and realize you’ve stressed your neck muscles and lower back