All-Star Flyer Back Pain Help

[cheerleader20]

Please, please go to a doctor and get an MRI. My daughter had the same kind of pain for months - went to the doc and x-rays showed nothing wrong. Pain continued so we went to an orthopedic specialist who ordered an MRI and turns out she had a stress reaction, which is the precursor to a stress fracture. Ortho said they see it a lot in gymnasts and cheerleaders due to the repetitive arching from stunting and tumbling. My daughter was out for 8 weeks of rest and PT, but if she had continued to just "work though the pain" she would have fractured her back. I shudder to think of what could have happened if she had fractured it and continued to push through it. As Mamarazzi pointed out above, you can walk and cheer and tumble even with a stress fracture in your back, but left untreated it can have very dire consequences!
Please, please do not blow this off! If your doc orders x-rays and they show you are fine push for a high contrast MRI. Your back is not something to mess with!

I will definitely be going to the doctor after reading this! When your daughter had a stress reaction what did her pain feel like? Was it a more of a sharp pain or more like sore, stiff muscles?

 

[cheerleader20]

DO NOT play around with this. Littlerazzi flew for years, gorgeous body positions, beautiful needles, all that. Cheered on a fractured spine for months (while getting massages, taking loads of NSAIDS, using ice packs and Icy Hot, which all made it feel better) before MRI and CT showed bilateral L4 fracture.
You're not a physician, your body only knows what feels better. Sure, you can do lots of things to interrupt the pain signals...until a fracture displaces and severs your spinal cord and you end up paralyzed.
I'm not playing. Get your behind to the dr now.

I promise I will go to the doctor this week thank you for the help!

 

[MissCongeniality]

DO NOT play around with this. Littlerazzi flew for years, gorgeous body positions, beautiful needles, all that. Cheered on a fractured spine for months (while getting massages, taking loads of NSAIDS, using ice packs and Icy Hot, which all made it feel better) before MRI and CT showed bilateral L4 fracture.
You're not a physician, your body only knows what feels better. Sure, you can do lots of things to interrupt the pain signals...until a fracture displaces and severs your spinal cord and you end up paralyzed.
I'm not playing. Get your behind to the dr now.

Shimmy x1000. Mama know Little Miss C went through similar. Bilateral fractures. She did chiro...massages...kt tape...all the while never imagining...then she had an MRI. I wanted to cry that she probably had been cheering in that condition for weeks...months maybe...worlds even...and it was just chalked up to sore muscles.

 

[Infinitytsunamis2012]

My back has really started to hurt this cheer season after pulling needles everyday in my stunts and arching my back very often. I was wondering if anyone had any tips or what they do to keep their back from hurting a lot or ways to stretch out better
before or after so it doesn't hurt as much when I pull it. Things I have done is epsom salt baths, foam rolling (this helps but I don't know very many ways to roll it out), putting on Dr.Teals lotion before going to sleep, etc. Thank you so much for the help!

I use the roller and it helps if you're having muscle pain. I recommend icy hot. Maybe go to a chiropractor.