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Surf hat recommendation
- Thread starter One-Off
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Revisiting this from a while ago. I still have a sore neck after surfing, hand tingling, reduced range of motion. MD said next step (I've been doing PT for over a year) was paint management therapy, and the specialist said acupuncture or cortisone. I thought cortisone was temporary relief. Sounds like you had a longer lasting effect.
When asked about my pain on a scale of 1-10 I said like 2 or 3 ofter surfing. 1or 2 chronically. I didn't think it was enough to warrant injections. Maybe I should just try it?
The hand tingling should concern you. You may never feel pain beyond a 2 or 3 but you’re doing (sometimes irreversible) nerve damage every time you feel that tingle. That’s a bulging disc pinching your nerve. If you’ve ever seen an mri of your neck you will realize just how little room for error there is. What started out as tingling for me turned to numbness, then pain, then loss of use of the arm. The tricep on my right arm never fully came back. I waited too long.
Yes the steroid injections are temporary (and have a poor success rate in the neck compared to the low back). Most people who get them get relief and then immediately return to the bad habits that made their neck fucked up in the first place.
I do traction every day still to this day. I constantly check my posture. I raised the handlebars on my bikes. I changed the way I paddle. I changed the way I do jiu jitsu.
The injections allowed me to do the work to heal my neck. But you have to do the work!
Yeah. I think I have this- https://www.spine-health.com/video/cervical-radiculopathy-interactive-video
I found a few stretches and exercises.
What does the traction involve?
I can see that providing relief while you're doing it. But is it lasting? Maybe miraculously my worn discs will grow or expand? I know, wishful thinking...
I've had shoulder length (or longer) hair for the majority of the past three decades. Keeping out of my face in the water is a matter of habit, it just lays back by itself every time i come up from a wipeout or duckdive.
I’ve been doing it prophylactically for years. Think of it like wearing braces on your teeth. Over time it uncompresses the spine (or at least slows it’s inevitable compression).
There’s no quick fix that lasts. Every day, protect your neck.
you should just quit surfing...it's the only real solution to what ails ya
Are you sure its the head flick causing the neck problems? Are you sure that its not another issue, and that's when you notice it?
The first doctor I saw for my said, “your surfing and jiu jitsu days are over.”
That was the last appointment I ever had with her.