Pain in lower back...

[Navi]

For the past month or so, I've had pain (more discomforting than severe pain) in my lower back, pretty much around my butt... If I sit for longer than 20 minutes, it'll start hurting. When I wake up in the morning, it'll hurt to. Occasionally, my legs go numb, but not every time. With school being back in session from the vacation, and with gym class resuming, I want to find out what could be a cause for it and hopefully fix it. I can't recall what could cause this, other than like, me being overweight maybe...
Should I have my mom call the doctor and have the doctor do what doctors do? :P

Thanks in advance!
~Killer Whale

[christcenteredlife]

hit up the doctor. it could be a compressed or herniated disc.

[Dimitri]

Yes, I would talk to you physician, it could range anywhere from a pinched nerve to a herniated disc, the possibilities are endless....

[Josiah7]

Yes, I would talk to you physician, it could range anywhere from a pinched nerve to a herniated disc, the possibilities are endless....

He said it all, get it looked at :)

[TheMightyBruce]

mhmm get it looked at. you can try something I do when my back hurts from sleeping wrong or from working out incorrectly. lay on your back and then raise your legs up as if you are putting them onto an invisible chair. slowly rock your legs back and forth as well as side to side...don't make exaggerated motions just small movements.

[christcenteredlife]

mhmm get it looked at. you can try something I do when my back hurts from sleeping wrong or from working out incorrectly. lay on your back and then raise your legs up as if you are putting them onto an invisible chair. slowly rock your legs back and forth as well as side to side...don't make exaggerated motions just small movements.

if done wrong this could knock your spine out of alignment. also, if it's something like a pinched nerve or herniated disc, this could hurt ya. so DON'T so this until you've been properly examined.

[ImCoolBeans]

Definitely bring it up to the doctor, bud.

[Dmtuba]

Try stretching more, you don't have any muscles in your lower back, so a lack of file ability in your hamstrings and gluteus will cause a land slide of back pain

[Dimitri]

Try stretching more, you don't have any muscles in your lower back, so a lack of file ability in your hamstrings and gluteus will cause a land slide of back pain

Ummm, i am pretty damn sure there are....

http://www.fitstep.com/Advanced/Anatomy/Graphics/back-anatomy-lats-traps.gif

[Unfortunate1]

Time to make a trip to the docter, You may have messed up a disc. Carful about popping your back, you could hurt yourself.

[Dmtuba]

Ummm, i am pretty damn sure there are....

image (http://www.fitstep.com/Advanced/Anatomy/Graphics/back-anatomy-lats-traps.gif)

Not to be arumentive, but lower back pain is most likely to be caused by a under streached leg muscles. If the latisimus Doris in inflamed or pain full, you feel it in your hips near you iliac crest. I know this because of my philsical therapy internship and mt volenter work in the training room.

[Dimitri]

Not to be arumentive, but lower back pain is most likely to be caused by a under streached leg muscles. If the latisimus Doris in inflamed or pain full, you feel it in your hips near you iliac crest. I know this because of my philsical therapy internship and mt volenter work in the training room.

Yes, you are correct, I was simply proving you wrong with your statement saying there are no muscles in the lower back, I am not saying that anything else you have said is incorrect but, and I am assuming since you have some experience in the medical field that you should never state something that can be proven wrong like I did.

[TheMightyBruce]

if done wrong this could knock your spine out of alignment. also, if it's something like a pinched nerve or herniated disc, this could hurt ya. so DON'T so this until you've been properly examined.

just curious...how would small movements knock your spine out of alignment. the motion and exercise I was mentioning allows for the stress on the spine to be smoothed out by a series of contraction and relaxation movements of the muscle. its not forcing the spine to go in a direction it shouldn't be going.