OK, so about a day after my last post, I ruptured a disk in my lower back which has kinda put a damper on my biking for the near-term. Take care of your backs, people!
I’ve had back problems for some time, and I won’t bore people who came to read a biking blog with a back problems blog, but on the day I ruptured the disk, I had some back pain in the morning, which isn’t unusual for me, so my thought was to just “power through it.” I stretched out, and rode my bike to work as usual. This was pretty painful, but again I just kept thinking I’d power through.
By the time I was riding home, genius that I am, I’d figured out something more serious might be going on, and the next day after an MRI I was diagnosed with said ruptured disk.
Now, when did the disk rupture? Who knows, but I’m guessing the biking didn’t help things. There is a whole Google universe on “biking and back pain” – 7,000.000 hits of a universe.
Basically, consensus is the straighter up you can sit, the better.
I’ll be doing a few posts on this while I continue to heal over the next few weeks. Here are some good posture while riding articles that I found, although these are for experiencing back pain while biking, and I’ve unfortunately moved beyond that realm!
