Muscle pain in back?
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I was diagnosed with polymyalgia last June and now reduced to 9 pred a day.
I have muscle pain on the right hand side of back at waist level but only when walking for about 10 mins or housework etc. It is ok when resting. Dr believe it's to do with my back rather than the polymyalgia. Does anyone else have problems with just one muscle once on the pred? New to the site so hope I have posted this correctly.
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I can only walk about 5 minutes and stand for a while until I need to sit on my stool in the kitchen to rest and not have to feel the pain. Hopefully, soon it will get better. I hear from Eileen that Bowen Therapy would help, but I do not have it available where I live.
I feel for you, and we all understand. This website is such a comfort.
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Another very good approach is with Bowen therapy - a very gentle and perhaps strange very gentle manual physical therapy but one which a lot of people on all 3 PMR forums have tried for this sort of problem and had great benefit. Really do consider trying a few sessions - if it will help you will know in up to 3, it isn't an open-ended approach that will cost the earth. One lady went from unable to walk without a zimmer frame or similar support to forgetting her walking stick she'd needed to get in to the room after just one session!
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We walk "wrong" when we have PMR, you then adjust to the discomfort to find the most comfortable position and it becomes a downward spiral. Posture doesn't often cause the problem, the problem causes the poor posture. Pain is usually your body telling you to do something about a problem.
I'm banging the drum about Bowen therapy today - it really can help with these sort of problems and at least reduce the pain if not banish it altogether. There are several people on the forums (including me) for whom it improved the pain we had that was PMR+, not just PMR but an add-on. It really is worth a go - if it doesn't work then you don't get faced with a practitioner who wants to do it for the next 5 years...
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And I bet the association says you need to go to one of their listed ones!
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