Back pain in 15yr old dancer please answer!!?

Question

I'm a pretty serious dancer (ballet mainly but irish, tap, modern, contemporary and jazz too) and about a month and a half ago I started to get pain in my back but only when I did back bends or something like that. It's right in the lower back, on the spine but sometimes its slightly to the left almost, does that mean anything? Now it aches most of the time esp. when I sit for a long time and it's kind of worrying me. I don't want to have to take time off dance again (I've had pretty bad knee problems and shin splints in the past year and have spent lots of time watching instead of dancing).

Please please please help!!

I did hyperextend it in jazz while doing backbends and landed on the floor. It hurt a lot but I didn't think much of it at the time.

Answer 1

You are right, even if your b*****s are larger than they should for your size, they will cause upper back pain and not lower back pain.

You have irritated your sacro-iliac joints (lots of people call them your hip joint). This joint is the first joint that moves if you bend, get out of bed and generally all activity using your lower back.

As it is a joint that has no disc, it does become inflamed easily and can therefore cause a lot of uncomfortable pain.

These joints usually become irritated when your pelvis becomes out of balance. Which can occur from prolonged sitting, minor falls and even just day to day life with all the bending lifting and twisting.

Don't worry it is nothing serious.

To change it you need to relax the muscles that support the pelvis that may be tight, you need to strengthen the muscles that will be weaker (this does not mean going to the gym, it means improving nerve and blood supply). This should settle things quickly if it is minor. If it doesn't then you need to change the joints in the pelvis which you can do at home easily.

But do the muscles first as this is the easiest and most likely cause. For the stretches just go to http://www.back-pain-advisor.com/back-so... for a free e-course on the necessary exercises.

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