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by 0xbear 3273 days ago
Your muscles are locked in spasm because they’re insufficient to carry the load. The long term solution to that is not acupuncture, it’s building up those muscles through exercise, and in particular through training with free weights.
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tome 3272 days ago
Well yeah, but it's no good lifting weights with muscles that are locked in spasm.
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mathw 3272 days ago
Indeed.

My physiotherapist's approach is to engage in a variety of horribly painful activities to get those muscles to unlock, and then teach you how to do the exercises that will help you stop it happening again.

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0xbear 3272 days ago
That's pretty much what I did, modulo the physiotherapist. I would lift, get punished for it with brutal back pain, wait for a few days for it to subside, then do it again. I was free of back pain within a month.
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