Posted by just another old geezer on July 14, 2009 at 20:51:41 from (216.105.208.2):
In Reply to: OT back pain posted by dieseldoc on July 14, 2009 at 13:25:08:
I AM ALSO A DAIRY FARMER.At age 40 I developed severe lower back pain. (L5 herniated disk) went to a chiropractor for 4 months. he was of no help. (In all fairness, what I had he could not have found or helped) when the pain got to bad I went to the doctor. got the MRI. Got sent to the surgon, He examined me and said " the MRI has not made it to my computer yet. by your range of movment, it does not look too bad, go home, when I get the To view the MRI, I will come up with a treatment plan, If nothing works, we can resort to surgury." before I got out of the clinic I was paged to return to his office. He Said" I've seen your MRI, and what I can't figure out is how you are still walking round" I was in surgury by 5 the next morning. Recovery was 6 months, I still can have problens If I over do it. Dr. says I have to limit my lifting to not over 50 lbs. I break that rule, but if I breake it too much I pay for it. But I made some changes around the farm that really helped. 1. I milk in a stall barm. I got knee pads and knell on one knee, don't squat. 2.shorten the small square bales, lighter and more of them. 3.Large rounds and a loader spear when you can. 4. got a small lawn cart > $100.00 , built up sides and a tail gate/ ramp to make a calf trailer that I pull with the atv. get the calfs fron the maternaty pasture and deliver them directly to the newborn pen with no lifting. 5. got a pallet fork for the skid loader. it saves a lot of lifting. built a calf crate on a large pallet for moving calfs around the farm or to sell. put the calfs in the crate and lift it in the truck. use your imagination, you will come up with ways to save lifting.
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