car induced pain ?

AndrewJ said:

I was about to go to the physio to grapple with my back injury. The
explanation was going to be: "... it's fine until I drive the car. Then
I get a really nasty pain in the back, which won't go away until I
apply heat treatment and lie down."

Then, it occurred to me: perhaps this really is psychosomatic. The act
of driving the car is so abhorrent to me that I summon up back pain.

Anyone else suffer from this condition?

Well I wouldn't completely rule out psychosomatic, but I know that my
back is much better on motorbike than in the car. Once when I had hurt
my back the only way I get to the doctor was on the motorbike.

DaveB

AndrewJ said:

I was about to go to the physio to grapple with my back injury. The
explanation was going to be: "... it's fine until I drive the car. Then
I get a really nasty pain in the back, which won't go away until I
apply heat treatment and lie down."

Then, it occurred to me: perhaps this really is psychosomatic. The act
of driving the car is so abhorrent to me that I summon up back pain.

Anyone else suffer from this condition?

getting in and out of cars, when I had a lower back problem, was quite
painful. Bend and twist at the same time, I think was the problem.

And, a lot of car seats don't exactly encourage good posture.

AndrewJ said:

Then, it occurred to me: perhaps this really is psychosomatic. The act
of driving the car is so abhorrent to me that I summon up back pain.

Now that I don't drive a great deal, I notice how stressful it is, and how
trapped one feels behind the wheel in the city. After a while this causes
my teeth to grind together, my head to throb etc - I guess these are
psychosomatic side-effects :-)

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I was about to go to the physio to grapple with my back injury. The
explanation was going to be: "... it's fine until I drive the car. Then
I get a really nasty pain in the back, which won't go away until I
apply heat treatment and lie down."

Then, it occurred to me: perhaps this really is psychosomatic. The act
of driving the car is so abhorrent to me that I summon up back pain.

Anyone else suffer from this condition?

Not at all - you should try cruising in a 1966 Chevy Belair - plenty of leg
room and seats like a lounge suite. Lovely.

But it guzzles petrol like nothing I know, so it's relegated to toy status
most of the time.

Still like my bike too.

Christo.

i have [censored] shoulders (left from baseball, right from hit from car...).
every now and then i forget and reach over to back seat to scramble for melways or whatever. have dislocated my shoulder 3 times now doing this. You'd think i'd learn... 🙄

luckily i don't put things on the back seat of the bike 😄
Then again, i wonder if it's an issue with a tandem...

flyingdutch said:

i have [censored] shoulders (left from baseball, right from hit from car...).
every now and then i forget and reach over to back seat to scramble for
melways or whatever.

Whatever = Shuttup you bloody kids - WHACK 😉 (ahh memories of my youth)

DaveB