4 Signs Your Back Is About To "Go Out". Severe Back Pain & Spasms. 

I don't slouch. I do lots of walking etc. I do everything right, and I still get back spasms!

I've lived with back pain since my 20s when I slipped and fell in my bathtub. Now in my 50s. Can't count how many times my back has gone out from lifting something heavy to something as simple as sitting in my chair. I have been laid up in bed for weeks unable to move, to having to use canes to walk. I found this channel after my most recent back pain. That was 3 weeks ago. I have found the information in these videos extremely helpful in getting my back back up and better. Thank you Bob & Brad.

This just happened to me. I was cleaning the kitchen and my back went out. I had to lay over the island, and then hunch up the stairs to lay down to ice it. Needless to say, That is why I am here now.

If Bert & Ernie were physiotherapists... Thanks though guys, very watchable & helpful.

I’m watching this from bed with a thrown out back and you guys are describing my whole life. I need to make some changes :-)

Im a first timer. At 42 yrs old. Looking under the sink and bang. Thank you for the tips. Now im not afraid to go to bed.👍👍

The standing stretch I've been doing so much lately!! My work includes a lot of bending and picking up things!! I have a lot of these symptoms, so hoping to avoid my back going out! You guys are great!

Nice tie, Brad! Thanks for this video guys, I learn sooo much!

Great as always You guys are a great team

Thank you. Your videos are so helpful. My back just went out and I’m trying all your techniques. Glad I found you 🙏❤️

These demos are back saving! Thanks so much!😊

Very informative as usual. Merry Christmas to you and yours! God bless ya'll....Beverly

I love you guys, seriously, you guys are great

Just happened to me a few days ago and I had some of the signs, like stiffness in my lower back. Wish I would have watched this video sooner!

This is useful as I feel like my back is going to go again.

thanks for your videos! im in spasm and they are helping me

If you guys still have your backs go out, what hope is there? : ) Seriously, this concise summary of information on warning signs and pre-emptive things to do is really helpful. I've jotted them down on a card to help improve my back habits. Also, for me now at day five after my worst sudden back strain, it is helpful even just hearing you say that just about everybody has his or her back go out now and then, and recovers. Encouraging. Thanks. Long time fan, first time commenter. Subscribed.

I went to kick start my bike to go to work and Bam. Your videos helped me get back on my feet and given me the tools to help prevent it. Thank you loads

I was changing a diaper and BAM!...🤕

Great video ; thanks for your knowledge

Thank you for this video I have been sitting wrong at work 10 hrs of sitting . My muscle spasm was hell

The biggest sign I get is my legs start to lose power. This is also preceded by hip stiffness.

You fixed my broken heart and broken back💜

Thanks for the bed entry/escape tips!

Thanks for the help getting up

This was really helpful!

these guys are the best thanks so much

Thank you, great advice

Thanks Bob and Brad. We love you.🇦🇺💓

Thank you. Very helpful.

love u sirs. I'm following ur all advices.feeling great.

I love these two!

Could you please create a video demonstrating proper techniques for managing personal hygiene while sitting in a confined space, including addressing challenges such as back spasms and the process of transitioning from a seated to a standing position? Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much ❤

I sneezed really hard in the shower...and boom....my back went out!

tks for the wonderful video.

I threw my back out last week when I sneezed! I've been subscribed to you guys for awhile but darn it, I've watched but haven't acted upon your advice (obviously). Anyway, I watched this now and then bought your book. And now, to get to work on things!

I love your videos guys!!! I started following you since June 2018 when I realized I had an L4-L5 herniated disc than caused my sciatica to start becoming annoying.. since then I've improved a lot watching over and over your videos. Thank you so much to the most famous physical therapist on the internet!! :D

Yes. The lying down with the knees up is great. but I can't move even a slight movement.

Just gotta day how much I love you guys and your sensible advice. Veteran of many spine and cervical surgeries and PT and you folks are the best I’ve come across.

Great video thanks

I’ve been straining/spraining (don’t know the difference) my low back for 15+ years. I probably have “crippled” myself about 7-8 times, I’m only 43. My most recent and worst one was last week where I had to use a cane to get to the car for a ride to urgent care for meds. Now I’ve always heard to ice it but I’ve always heated mine because it felt so tight. Heat always loosens me up and I can eventually stretch and crack my back. I tried ice one time and it got so tight I couldn’t move at all and was screaming in pain. I will never ice it again. I’ve never been stuck in bed more than 3 days until this last one which was 4 days. Now, I’m not 100% but I’m moving fine after 5 days. I always get prescribed muscle relaxers, naproxen and Tramadol. I only take the relaxers and Tramadol for 3 days usually.

best channel on youtube❤

Just watching him do press ups, caused my lower back to hurt. Oh my god

Just what I was looking for today 😔👍

After experiencing the first severe issue with my back (at 54 I can't complain but never want to experience again) I went in search of information & stumbled upon your video. THANK YOU for the bits of information that's fun to watch too! Will be checking out the other informative videos to learn more from you two. Also, spied Gumby on the skeletons shoulder...made me giggle :)

I’m always coming back to your videos! Thank you so much! My lower back is in pre pain and I can barely move! 🥺😭 I’m only 30!

Thanks so much.

The spine is well used in my family, since 10 year, I am recommanding it too, it really help.

I'm having the signs but after a big spasm. I'm afraid it will go out again. Trying to avoid that as well as keep improving. Thanks for the videos!

Subscribed!!! You guys are the greatest PT's in the history of Life!!!! Can you make a video or tell us more about "specific" gym exercises for stomach, back, legs, arms, etc, to gain strength and muscle mass WITH a bulging disc.? Lost lots of muscle mass because of BUDGAP -Bulging Disc Gym Apprehension. Thanks much

So fun guys, nice to see you representing Packers and Vikings, I'm on the border and love watching when I'm in pain.

this is exactly where I'm at right now as I've said before I've got numerous medical issues and I'm well aware my posture is awful, spending all day immobile I spend a lot of time on my phone/tablet and this seems to be what makes mine and many people's posture so terrible these days. after seeing my physiotherapist I see how bad it is and even watch my kids as they sit the same staring at their phones! I'm on many pain relievers and nerve pain suppressors, I'm not allowed anti inflammatory meds unfortunately. you guys talk a lot of sense thanks for all your efforts x

wow I have been suffering with a lower back pain and spasing the story of your dad is me know I can't find a way to lay down so the spasing stops I don't know what to do with myself

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you‼️🙏🏾

This was good

This guy's are awesome 👌

Thank you.

Thanks for that info of how to get in and out of bed....wish I had known this when I visited my Physiotherapist I could not get onto the examination table at the beginning and had a really painful struggle...then could not get off at the end nearly passed out with the pain!!

You both are great and funny trust me people they know thier shit

The jingle...I’m dead

Love u guys chemistry

Yes i discovered this way of getting in and out of bed. Good demonstration 👍

Wow! Some very good advise that youguys give us. Would you be so kind to let know where I can get those balls mainly the little one?

Preach Bob preach 5:51! Great detailed vidéo. By the way, how can someone that's cursed with a nearly absent lumbar curve sit? Today I tried sitting up straight in class and had a tight lower back all day. My body tends to forward flex to decrease pain even though that's not advised.

I threw my back out yesterday. Never felt pain like it! It’s been almost 24 hours and i can’t get out of bed yet...pain is too intense. Hoping as each day goes on it will get easier to move.

Right where you placed that first white ball is where my back spasmed a couple days ago :/ took my breath away! its still painful! dont know what to do.. im 35 and trying to get back to normal.

I help cashier at work and Omg it kills my back. On another note you guys gave me some good tips and a good laugh.

"HES NOT GONNA SING THE SONG" 🤣

@bob&brad - do you still advise these hip rolls from side to side if you’re experiencing hip pain too? I have both lower back and hip pain like aching quite a lot

I practically mastered that Getting our of bed machination when I hurt my back! It was brutal.

From now on I will have to pay attention to my posture more, especially when gardening and not to stretch and twist and bend over at the same time.

So I have been dealing with a herniated disc and sciatica since Nov 2021. At its peak, it was the worst on thanksgiving. Since then I’d been improving. However, two days ago, I sneezed so hard my back went out and now I’m starting from 0. It’s so hard to endure. The pain makes me want to not be alive anymore.

You seem to talk a lot about common precursors to low back pain issues. Can you talk more about what might set off upper back and neck pain incidents?

Bob and brad

4:22 thats exactly what made my back go out. that posture

Thanks!

The slump position reminded me when I was in six grade 😊. Our teacher would walk between the rows of chairs and if our back was not straight she would put a ruler inside the back of the uniform 😂

I run equipment for a living I am writing a message on my windshield in my truck and machine to do a stretch and sit up straight as a reminder so I don't forget and start slouching again. I get working and focus on that and forget how I'm sitting a lot. Bouncing up and down on that seat in my truck or equipment hasn't been good for my back over the last decade.

I’m 37. I struggle daily just to get out of bed due to Osteoarthritis all in my spine. I also have bulging discs, bone spurs, and dried up discs. I wish I could have back surgery and get it all fixed but my doctor said surgery won’t fix it. I’m so tired of suffering. Can’t even work because of it, and other medical problems.

I wish i could do these. I fell at work the other day. I fell about four feet backwards and hit the concrete on my lumbar area. doing what I can to keep moving and stretching to keep the muscles from tightening farther.

People need to do more yoga. It would solve a lot of back problems, having watched this video.

Q: Saw a yoga pose: Legs up the wall - would this help, "flatten" a bulge back into place between the discs? Thank you for all your explanations on what was a "mystery" condition all this time.

Excellent video !! I wish to see this advices at least 10 years ago..Now I have incidents..Can you give advice how to sit in the car? The car seat is literally made to attack our spines..How to sit in the car or adjust the seat with low back pain and 2 buldged discs L4-5 ?? Thanks.

Hello Bob & Brad! Do you have a Video to show of if/when your knee/s and/or hip/s about to go out, due to trip and fall injury? of so, I would love to see one/two, along with knee PT exercises for if the pain is in the inner and front bottom of your knee. Is it a possibility that when you have a trip and fall injury and feel the pain in one hip from falling and tripping forward, if it can cause pain and irritation in the other hip? if so, how can that be and is their some PT exercises that can be done to prevent future injuries especially with it being winter season. Thank You In Advance for the Awareness Videos and PT Exercises for Strengthening the knees and hip!

Back went out and now I’m watching this

This vid should be part of training for office work

Anti inflammatories and ice, then leave things ready for the next day, cause you won't be able to walk, crawling on hands and knees is least painful . Stay in bed for 2 days then start the physio. Start trying too stand and walk on day 3 for 10mins every 2hrs,walk,bed,walk,bed. On day 4 walk around the house for half an hour every 2 hrs then bed, avoid sitting. Day5 you should be walking without much discomfort, but it will take a another 7 to 10 days for the strength and stability to build in your back. This works for me, I've torn the same little muscle 8 times over 25yrs mostly on a half bent over rotational movement.

The best

It’s the best positction to help in pain

I went on a ship cruise and I noticed that I my walking pace got slower and slower and then I had some pain put it got so bad I had back spasms and couldn't even move. I think my body was working to hard as the ship rocked side to side.

I've been doing yoga more regularly now, but the thing is I'm not very active. I think when I went into plank then into cobra and then into a downward facing dog I went too fast. I also have been a tech (web design) student for quite some time, you sit a lot in front of a computer, I've been telling myself to adjust my posture but now I'm just laying here watching videos on how to fix this...

Doctor! Your back went out! You look fine now, how did you corrected it? Please! please! Tell me.

The motto I live by is “Movement is life!” But since I started a medication for Graves’ disease (hyper thyroid) one of the side effects is weight gain. It’s one thing if someone gains 20 lbs in a year but I’ve gained 55 lbs in less than 6 months and my body just can’t handle it! My endocrinologist says there’s nothing that can be done but I refuse to accept that! I used to love walking, I even worked my way up to jogging, but now just a few steps makes my entire body tighten up, including my lower back. If I can’t exercise I for sure won’t have a chance at losing this weight!! Would you have any ideas on what I can do to release the tightness my lower back and entire body feel?

I have the lower back pain where its hard for me to straighten up but when I wake up in the morning and stand and start to walk my legs feel like I have cramps in the shin calf and some times the hips and thighs both legs any idea about this any info would be great

can i do those press ups if i have had a spinal fusion L4L5 (6 years post op), and a recent diagnosis of disc degeneration L5S1 and mild arthrosis L1-L5, my back does feel pretty tight all the time

Hello sir, i followed your taught excercise well its a bit relief but sir as i start slow jogging some day its starts severe pain in my lower back please give me your comments about it sir.

Thank you. This I really needed today but for one strange reason my body wanted warmth so I used a hot water bottle instead of ice. Can't straighten up today and exercise is hurting me a lot but they need to be done.

AIM. The M is for morgue @9:41. It cracked me up and I started having back spasms.

Went to get out of my car at the doctors and BAM.