Back Pain/Stress fractures?!
Question: Last spring during a baseball game my back really started hurting. I went to my sports medicine doctor and he thought it could be a stress fracture. After I had a bone scan, they saw 2 stress fractures of my L5. I had to stop playing baseball the rest of the season. I didn't play any sports all summer long, I did Physical Therapy but that made my back hurt really bad for 2 days after so my doctor stopped that. My pain never really stopped, when school started it got worse because I had to sit in class all day. My mom asked for a CT to see if the fractures had healed, the CT came back normal. Basketball practice started in the fall but I couldn't do it because it hurt too much to run, the doctor thought I should be o.k. by then but I wasn't, and I was mad that I couldn't be on the basketball team. We had an MRI to see if there was neurological damage, the MRI came back normal, but I still have pain. Now it's baseball time again, what can I do to get rid of this pain?
Answers: Last spring during a baseball game my back really started hurting. I went to my sports medicine doctor and he thought it could be a stress fracture. After I had a bone scan, they saw 2 stress fractures of my L5. I had to stop playing baseball the rest of the season. I didn't play any sports all summer long, I did Physical Therapy but that made my back hurt really bad for 2 days after so my doctor stopped that. My pain never really stopped, when school started it got worse because I had to sit in class all day. My mom asked for a CT to see if the fractures had healed, the CT came back normal. Basketball practice started in the fall but I couldn't do it because it hurt too much to run, the doctor thought I should be o.k. by then but I wasn't, and I was mad that I couldn't be on the basketball team. We had an MRI to see if there was neurological damage, the MRI came back normal, but I still have pain. Now it's baseball time again, what can I do to get rid of this pain?
Good post above. The reason PT hurt before was you had an acute stress fracture. At this point, PT rarely does any good and I'm surprised it was ordered in the first place.
Now that the stress fractures have healed, it should be more appropriate for PT. Now is the time to start stressing the area to remodel and continue to facilitate the healing process.
So you had stress fracture and stopped playing sport. Then you had MRI and CT the fractures are healed and you went back to sport but it HURTS! The problem is you went from being super fit to nothing. Then you want to be super fit, but have pain. Therefore you need to start back a PT take the PT one exercise at a time, do some swimming and start to rebuild those muscles. Best of Luck