Post by indigoYou're right, riding horses IS dumber than me playing basketball again :-P
Not if you do it carefully and intelligently, but there's inherent danger is just
driving to work, so what are we supposed to do, stay home?
Post by indigoI am working with my PT gal on strengthening my core muscles, but I've only
been doing it for a month or so. We'll see if that solves the problem, but
it will take a while.
I will say that my lower back has always bothered me, between riding, and then
mucking stalls and lifting water buckets on weeknds, I was always stiff and sore.
When I started going to the gym and using those machines for the lower back, my
stiffness went away the stronger I got. That's about the only part of the gym I
miss. Hmm....maybe now that I'm not riding, I'll go back again....
Post by indigoI don't believe that manipulating various body parts is bad for you at
all -- in fact I think the opposite.
Depends, muscles and ligaments etc, those wouldn't be damaging, but cracking your
spine joints, constantly, I personally don't think that's healthy. It's one thing if
you do it to fix something, then it's fixed for good, if you have to keep doing it,
then something is weak that allows it to slip out of place, and that should be fixed
instead of constantly messing with your joints.
If something gets out of kilter and you
Post by indigodon't get it fixed the problem spreads to other parts of the body. For
instance, my hips get rotated, constantly. That causes really bad lower back
pain (it make one leg a tad shorter than the other). Me and my chiro decided
years ago that once a month visits are the best course of action for me, and
it has worked ever since. I have a malformed vertabrae in my lower back that
causes the problem, can't stop the problem from happening, so we do what we
have to do.....
Fess up, you just like going cause she's a chick.... ;>
She ain't a "chick", she a 50 something year old second mother.......
OH, so you've got a granny fetish.......