LUMBAR PAIN AFTER THE EXERCISE

 

I swam yesterday at the Oceanside Harbor Beach. Rehab kicking with fins while relaxing on my back. The water pressure pushing my body up facilitates the stretching and effectiveness forme. More importantly, I love cold beach water.

But I pay with increased lumbar pain the evening of the swim and more the following day, which is now, the 21st. 

The idea is that doing the exercise and physical therapy for rehabbing body areas will relieve pain and increase mobility. I'll buy into the increased mobility, but as for relieving pain...that's a big 'NO.' The strenuous exercise increases pain. 

 

I'm taking today off. I'll walk the dog tonight.

November 12, 2025

I'm reviewing this post and am so favorably taken with the beauty of our Oceanside beach in the photo. This is real. No people. I didn't wait for this scene. It's just that flat solitude of the beauty and calm of nature that I caught here. See the pier in the background minus the restaurant that burned down? That adds something to the shot. That is some perfect swimming water out there, right? How lucky are we!

Lumbar Pain

 While I rehab my neck after my second cervical fusion 4 months ago, I have been getting into the water at the Oceanside Harbor Beach, usually a mellow beach to play and kick.

Today I put the fins on again and, while lying on my back, worked on practicing my kicking to strengthen my low back. I need the second lumbar fusion, the L3 and L4. I already got the L5 to S-1 in 2014, I think it was.

I am working on getting approval to get more epidural shots soon in my L3 and L4 bilaterally. Tonight my lumbar is giving me lots of grief with mucho pain and some spasms. Thank goodness for my competent doctors at the VA system.

I wish that you fellow pain patients had the pain care that I have had over the many years.