Age 55, 9 months post-op, fusion T2-T12.
I'm now at the stage of increasing mobility - yoga with a specialist teacher for the past 6 weeks and a couple of sessions of physiotherapy. I wonder if anyone else has noticed a sharp increase of pain and spasm at this stage? I think the pain is partly due to the spasms - pulling on the metalwork etc. My upper back, right ribs and round to the stomach are in permanent spasm which any movement at all seems to exacerbate. I think the spasm has always been there but masked by the brace (out of brace 3 months). Am keeping just about functional by lying down in between keeping moving. The yoga lessons seemed to help at first - less pain for a day or two after, so I feel I should persevere, even though doing it on my own seems to set off the pain. The physiotherapy exercises seem very gentle, but one I had to stop doing because it caused prolonged and intense upper back pain, and the others seem to be associated with the general increase in pain in the last couple of weeks.
Is this the usual experience? Is it something one just has to go through? How long does it last, and how do people cope?
Lavinia
I'm now at the stage of increasing mobility - yoga with a specialist teacher for the past 6 weeks and a couple of sessions of physiotherapy. I wonder if anyone else has noticed a sharp increase of pain and spasm at this stage? I think the pain is partly due to the spasms - pulling on the metalwork etc. My upper back, right ribs and round to the stomach are in permanent spasm which any movement at all seems to exacerbate. I think the spasm has always been there but masked by the brace (out of brace 3 months). Am keeping just about functional by lying down in between keeping moving. The yoga lessons seemed to help at first - less pain for a day or two after, so I feel I should persevere, even though doing it on my own seems to set off the pain. The physiotherapy exercises seem very gentle, but one I had to stop doing because it caused prolonged and intense upper back pain, and the others seem to be associated with the general increase in pain in the last couple of weeks.
Is this the usual experience? Is it something one just has to go through? How long does it last, and how do people cope?
Lavinia
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