i had this problem over a year ago and its returned . the mid back muscles around my thoracic spine are absolute agony when ive been asleep for a few hours and the pain is horrendous, i cant even turn over its that painful .at present even taking a footstep i can painfully feel in my thoracic spine .i cycle to work everyday which i enjoy but every bump i painfully felt in my mid spine
i triggered the problemm on sunday during a leg squatting day and strongly feel its the compression of my spine causing the horrendous pain ... im was fairly ok doing the squat but it gradually got worse but when i racked the weight to take the load off my spine , the pain in and around the mid thoracic area was even worse then eased off a tad
this morning i cannot even lift my torso up from a lying down position ( ie a traditional sit up) . also if i do apelvic tilt and flatten my spine agains the floor the pain is horrendous .to lift something only moderately heavy in front of me causses high pain in my mid spine.
i had chiro treatment last year but he could not make things better but he did one thing that was EXCRUTIATING ....he told me to cross my arms and he basically lifted my whole body up from my armpits in a SHARP JOLT and thepain in my spine was unbeleivable (10/10) .... he basically stretched my spine for a second .
i have had AN X RAY an MRI earlier this year . nothing major but heres what it said THERE IS A LITTLE DEGENERATIVE REDUCTION ON THE LOWER 3 LUMBAR DISCS BUT NO FOCAL DISC PRORTRUSION. THE FACET JOINTS LOOK UNREMARKABLE .NO PARAVERERTABRAL MASSES DETECTED . BONE MARROW SIGNAL LOOKS WITHIN NORMAL LIMITS. NO THORACIC DISC PROTRUSION IS SEEN ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE ENDPLATES ARE SLIGHTLY IRREGULAR WITH FAIRLY SLENDER DISC.THERER IS EXTREMELY SUBTLE SUB ENDPLATE INCREASED SIGNAL RETURN AT MULTIPLE THORACIC LEVELS BUT NO FRACTURES DETECTED. THE THORACIC CORD LOOKS NORMAL CALIBRE AND SIGNAL RETURN . THE RIGHT NEUTRAL EXIT FORAMINA LOOKS NORMAL.
CONCLUSION . SUBTLE SCHEURMANS OSTEOCHONDRITIS ON THE THORACIC SPINE.
to me the pain feels like my discs are rubbing and the outer muscles are going into spasm to protect my spine but im just guessing .... but one important point i havnt merntioned was i had a very bad cycle accident 13 years ago and i went over my handlebars at 25mph and landed upright on my head and my neck taking the severe impact . my neck is still bad to this day ie pain and range of movement ... do you feel it could be this adding to my mid back problem and i am also not convinced the SCHEURMANS is whats causing me this very bad pain in my thoracic spine again.
to sum it up , i get skeletal & muscle pain if lift my torso up out of bed or do a single sit up ,run or jog , any vibrations through my body(cycling) i can feel tenfold through my thoracic spine , lift anything in front of me , simply walking is painful at present as every footstep i feel in my spine , plus the severe pain that awakes me through the night.
i had some DICLOFENIC left over from last time so ive been using that . my GP and the sysyem is not very helpful as if i want to get my back looked at it has to go through all the proper routes from gp refer to physio , then physio get you to do weeks of core strengthening etc and all this takes months before anything productive gets done .
im realy down as i take pride in my body and health and train weights 4 days a week and 2 days core with 5 days of cycling to work ..... is there something i can do for my back that will help it , ie stretches , core moves that will aid my back issue. . any ideas what COULD be WRONG with my back (thoracic area)would be most appreciated

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