ALOT of body pain-Ankles,knees,spine.lower back

Kgallacher

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Ok so the past months i have had alot of pains in my knees and ankles and then i started getting alot of pain in my lower back and spine..like when i land backwards on flat it kills my backa nf my knees like hurt when i bend them like a ripping hurt and so on..like my body just doesnt feel right and im only 14??im starting to see a chiroprator on monday and tehe is this thing where they shock me and shoot me with elctcity and so on....

But they arent skiers so i was wondering you guys have had any expericne and have any tips.....sorry for all the spelling errors im in a rush
 
stretch all your muscles. most of knee pain and other stuff that doesnt occur from a fall is caused because your muscles are tight and more stress is put on your joints. for example stretch your hamstrings, quads and all those leg muscles. just search for stretches on google.

and i personally would switch to a physiotherapist because i think chiropracting is a scam (my mum was a physio so that isnt a fair view)
 
what exactly is a physiotherapist?? thanks..also i think it has to do with foot beds thats what teh lady said when she examined my body....
 
holy fuckkkk wanna know something weird... im 14, feeling pain in my knees ankles and lower back... and i see i chiropracter every monday.....
 
yeah stretch a lot before you go out. you know, arms, legs, neck, ankles and all those things. maybe work out a little too to build up those muscles. nothing intense is really needed. I woke up this morning after a day of skiing and I was so sore and tense I couldn't even reach with 2 ft of my toes, so yeah stretching is good.
 
i had really bad lower back pain when i was your age, and i realized that i wasnt skiing right, i was bending WAY more at my lower back than i needed to be. take a couple days off, rest yourself, and bend more at the knees.
 
i was looking at superfoot and they have like foot beds for skiing and stuff but i think foot beds would help witht he rest of my body??
 
yeah, probably from a hard landing. this happened to me once. i took a hard fall and whacked my knee, and it didn't hurt that day, or even that night. but i woke up the next morning and it killed. i went to the doc and he said i sprained it.

sucks man
 
I hae never skied as much and as often as I have already this season and my body is hurting form it too. I think it is just normal wear and tear. I have terrible shin bang, I reagrivated a hip that I hairline fractured 3 yrs back, I dropped a cliff into a tree the other day hurting my shoulder and overall Im just hurting. Ice a lot, stretch a lot, and take a good 3-4 days off. Thats what I am doing, and it should be fine again soon
 
Because im Thorwin Down on da other side of Town possibly..but im still not quite sure...also when i look at my kneed they have totally oppostie looks..its werid and they hurt alot when i bend them a certain way.
 
I have been dealing with chronic pain since I was 14, and I'm 36 now. My advice - get better advice than you'll probably find here. "Growing pains" is a completely bullshit term. When you body hurts, it's an indication that something is wrong, period. Pain can come from injury, but it is also largely chemical and neurological in nature, especially once it becomes chronic. At your age, hormonal changes in your body chemistry might be involved. It might sound weird, but nutrition can have a big impact. Sometimes even just a deficiency in certain minerals can be an underlying culprit (magnesium for example). Don't make assumptions like this yourself, seek out a good doctor who will run various blood tests. Depending on where you live, this kind of doctor might be difficult to find. Taking prescription medications is very unlikely to fix problems, they are more for dealing with symptoms. Sometimes that might be necessary, especially if the pain is negatively affecting your life, but it won't do much (if anything) to actually fix structural problems.

Many people think anti-inflammatory drugs will take care of it, but they typically just mask the source of the inflammation, and damage your health in the process (liver, etc.) The guy who mentioned using weed probably doesn't realize that while cannabis can be useful, it can also contribute to the same neurological pain cycle. Sleep is super important, 7-8 hours a night in summer, and 9+ hours in the winter (natural production of neurotransmitter chemicals like serotonin and melatonin). Do a little reading on "neurotransmitters" on wikipedia for a good outline what goes on behind the scenes in your brain.

Finding a good doctor can be tough, as this type of medicine is an emerging trend. Chiro can be useful, but not a fix-all. Naturopathic doctors tend to approach pain from the right direction, but you can't count on initials after someone's name to decide whether their advice is sound. Bodywork in general can be very helpful (massage, phyical therapy, Rolfing, yoga, pilates, etc.) Learn how to stretch properly before you hurt yourself worse (after skiing might be even more important than beforehand).

Also think about the other things changing in your life that don't seem related to the pain. At your age, your diet, sleep patterns, stress, interests, etc. are probably different than they were even a year or two ago. Just dealing with school and social life can really drain your energy resources. Adrenal stress is a pretty common pain-catalyst for young athletic types, and left un-addressed, can really affect your life in the present and down the road. Good luck bro, the internet is full of into on this, both accurate and not. Be wary of know-it-all attutudes, and be careful what you put into your body. If something hurts while you're skiing, don't ignore it. If I had some of this info at 14, I wouldn't be broken now. Take care of yourself and good luck.

 
commonly called "growing pains" - not that it should be ignored......

super good advice ++++++++++ karma!
 
Although mostly everything you said was legit, and it's definetely better to be safe than sorry, I speak from experience as well that growing paints do exist. From 13 to 15 I had pains all around my body. Knees, heels, feet, back, neck. The worst was my knees, as I had Osgood-Schlatters (or however you spell it) really bad. I went to the chiropractor, got custom footbeds, took pain killers before physical activity, etc. To be honest I sucked at sports for a good year and a half just because it killed to run. In that year and a half period I broke 6 different bones, all of which I'm convinced had to do with my horrible flexibility (my muscles were far shorter than my rapidly growing bones). You don't think about it, but your flexibility isn't just your ability to touch your toes- its the elasticity of your muscles. If your body can't bend enough when it falls, it breaks. However, now that I'm the enlightened, all-knowing age of 16, I haven't had these problems in over a year. I'm not saying I won't get injured ever again, and I'm still very inflexible, but none of the constant pains I experienced during my prime growing years continue to nag me. At about the same age as the thread creator, I was basically in constant pain. I wouldn't necessarily spend my college savings money looking for a super specialist doctor if your regular doctor diagnoses normal growing pains, as they'll go away in a year or two.
 
*correction- They MIGHT just go away in a year or two.

I'm not trying to negate what the guy above me said, just didn't want you to get overly scared from one NS post because you might not be as bad off as him.
 
stretch a lot also if its in ur back/knees/feet if u dont have orthodics they might help a lot i had pain in my feet leges back a while back not from skiing though and turned out i needed orthodics so give those a try though there not very cheap
 
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