Any products or tips to help with back pain?

[SuperchargedVR6]

StormLoaded said:

Not driving? : cannabis stops the pain nicely and is the only sure fire answer i've found.. (short of becoming addicted to Codeine via a doc's perscription..)

I gave that up years ago

[Mastodon2]

Crusoe said:

Try a rolled up towel accross your back just below your ribs about the thickness of your arm. You get physio lumbar supports for £15 or so like this which do the same job.

A woman I work with has one of those cushion things that our company bought her after she complained of a bad back to the occupational health people. She never bothers with it, I had go with it and I just can't see how it could be comfortable, I felt like I couldn't relax back into my seat properly, horrible thing.

[rocketdogbert]

I suffered for years, then I started training at the gym, stronger back, no pain

John

[aeropilot]

You might have the seat base too low or too tilted?

You need to make sure your knees are lower than your hips, and the angle between your lower spine and thighs, is greater than 90 deg.
If it's less than 90 deg, you are putting pressure on your lower spine, hence the back ache.

[All that jazz]

aeropilot said:

You might have the seat base too low or too tilted?

You need to make sure your knees are lower than your hips, and the angle between your lower spine and thighs, is greater than 90 deg.
If it's less than 90 deg, you are putting pressure on your lower spine, hence the back ache.

So you're saying that the seat should be bolt upright and the seat base sloping downwards towards the pedals. That's the only way you can satisfy knees being lower than hips *and* thighs being more than a 90 degree angle from spine. Yeah that's gonna be really comfy.

[aeropilot]

All that jazz said:

aeropilot said:

You might have the seat base too low or too tilted?

You need to make sure your knees are lower than your hips, and the angle between your lower spine and thighs, is greater than 90 deg.
If it's less than 90 deg, you are putting pressure on your lower spine, hence the back ache.

So you're saying that the seat should be bolt upright and the seat base sloping downwards towards the pedals. That's the only way you can satisfy knees being lower than hips *and* thighs being more than a 90 degree angle from spine. Yeah that's gonna be really comfy.

No need for the

When I was having severe issues with back lower back pain after first buying the BMW, I was on the point of selling the car, but a fellow petrolhead who happens to be a Chiropractic, looked at my seat setting and told me it was all wrong for the reasons stated above. With his guidance, the seat was adjusted, and allow, yes, it did take a bit of getting used to over the next few days, the severe lower back pain had also gone within a few days.
He said that most of the issues he has to deal with patients are as a result of pain caused by poor posture from incorrectly adjusted office chairs, incorrectly adjusted car seats and slouching in front of the TV......

[Pappap]

I had problems with base of spine when I drove my car that had low profiles but eased when I used the other car that didn't have low profiles. A visit to the osteopath and was informed that the seats are designed different for cars with LPW and it did seem to be just that.