Anyone else out there riding in spite of past injuries that could be aggravated? I herniated a disc a couple of years ago, and have stopped jumping but have safely returned to riding. Now I find I am very tempted to jump again and think that small jumps may be ok. I find it hard to do the exercises every day but know that if I don't, I could end up crippled. So how does one decide---still ride and risk one day not being able to walk? Or do we give up on something we love to do because SOMEDAY it may make us crippled? No one has told me to restrict anything, the doctors always said stuff like "If it causes you pain, you might want to stop doing it." Most riders like me know that "no pain, no gain." So therefore, it is harder to differentiate---how much of the pain is there because you are working physically hard and developing new muscles, and how much of the pain is there as a warning to go no further? I do know that nerve pain (sciatica and pain from the butt down the leg to the foot) is usually a warning sign from a disc that something is awry. But sometimes after a ride my back feels alot better than it did before. I used to see a hands on chiropractor and he helped for awhile, but when the disc kept going, eventually herniating and pressing on the nerve root, he was still trying to manipulate my back and I don't think that that was good. I have an extraordinarily high pain threshold which is kind of bad, in these situations. Once I had a root canal and after, the dental surgeon wondered how I wasn't walking around in constant agony up to that point judging from the extent of the bleeding in my dental nerve roots. Anyone tried acupuncture? Do you recommend it for a bad lumbar disc? Is it safe for me to be riding or am I just sitting on a time bomb? To jump or not to jump? When is enough enough? Any advice on these matters would be much appreciated.
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