Lower back pain
Tigger con carne
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Just back to cycling to work after an injury. I upgraded my favoured beast with new wider bars, shorter stem and new saddle. I rode it to work today(instead of my usual commuting steed) to try it out and felt some major lower back pain after maybe 15 minutes. Has anyone else had this?
I don't know if it's the wider bars, shorter stem, saddle not in the right position or the fact that I was carrying a slightly heavier backpack today. I'm thinking a move of the saddle forward might help. Any ideas?
I don't know if it's the wider bars, shorter stem, saddle not in the right position or the fact that I was carrying a slightly heavier backpack today. I'm thinking a move of the saddle forward might help. Any ideas?
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I had similar experience when I changed seat post and also when I changed bars/stem combo.
In my case it was solved just by adjusting positions until pain was lessoned. The obvious thing which made a difference was seat height.
I would not say I have completly sorted it yet but certainly a lot less painful than it was at the start.0 -
I did a big ride yesterday after moving the saddle forward a bit and messed about with the height and it seemed to work fine. Felt a twinge of lower back strain a couple of times but nothing like I had on my commute last week0
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When I first started cycling again after a few months off with injury to my shoulder for the first week I got a dull ache in my lower back. After that it went away and never came back. What was your injury ?0
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lol...i'm still young even i cry for back pain sometimes so much...i ride almost 5 hours everyday0
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Lower back problems are often due to weak abs and the posture on the bike. You guys should consider some other fitness activities to help to strenghten the abs and the back.
Jiri
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I have a couple herniated discs so suffer from this all the time. I found fitting shorter flat (580mm) bars and angling the saddle 1/2 degrees nose down reduces it quite a lot, esp on climbs!0
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Actually lower back pain has many reasons and isn't always down to a weak core. Scientific studies have shown that prescribing core exercises has had disappointingly poor results. Despite many years research, lower back pain is still a fairly mysterious subject.
I should know, I've had medium-to-serious lower back issues for over 20 years and done no end of core work, including special exercises from physios. pilates etc and these, along with doing brazilian jiu jitsu several times a week has given me decent core strength. However a bike's setup that doesn't suit me will give me backache in short order.
I ruined my old bike by messing around with the stem and bar - it gave me terrible back ache after about an hour's riding. I moved to a full suss with a more upright posture which has made matters considerably better.
All you can do is to mess around with set up until it works for you. You might try taking it back to how it was to make sure it is actually the new parts causing hte problems and not an unrelated back problem.0 -
DCR00 wrote:I was correcting the "abs" element
Just strengthening your abs won't do much for back pain, and may actually make it worse
Yeah, abs don't support your body as such but are more for bending over (i.e sit ups)
Your core is a lot more than just abs..
Build a stronger core will help back pain, don't forget obliques too
Also working your lats will help, particularly the lower lats
I've found stretching quads, glutes and hip flexors to help a lot.. tight hips and legs will put your back out of position and put extra stress on it while riding0
