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From: Bill Johnston on 4 Jun 2007 09:44
Hello,
If anyone has any insights or suggestions here, it would be awesome.

I have a back and leg muscle problem. I have pain near the very
bottom of my backbone- its not very intense although I sometimes get a
twinge of sharper pain. I find it uncomfortable to lie on my back.
The muscles in my hips and buttocks, and to some extent my upper
thighs, are very tight and sore, tire easily, and frequently ache.
If I walk more than a couple blocks, these muscles start to become
tired and achey.

The problem first showed up a year ago, while I worked as a grocery
stocker (I'd had simple back pain a couple months earlier, which had
only affected my back, and had mainly gone away). The culprit was
evidently the fact that my job required frequent lifting of heavy
boxes from the floor rapidly, which tired the leg and hip muscles
involved and affected my back. After I quit that job, the problem
seemed to 85% go away within a couple of months afterwards. I still
found sleeping on my back uncomfortable, and long walks tired me more
quickly than in the past, with my hips and buttocks tiring first.

The problem resurfaced with a recent factory job. It is not a very
difficult job, although a bit repetitive, but it seems to have re-
activated the problem. Tasks involved prolonged standing, and
especially frequent stooping and/or rotating the waist seem to set it
off. There is also some lifting involved but it is not very heavy
stuff and I dont have to do it too much. Tasks which I perform while
seated don't seem to be a problem. Although I had a week off, and two
weeks of only doing seated tasks, the problem hasn't gone away,
although it has gotten better.

I have also gone to a massage therapist a couple times for some rather
rigorous massages, which did release alot of the tension in the
muscles inviolved, although some of the ones worked on hurt for days
afterwards.

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