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I would try some simple stretches. This helped my lower back:
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40-odd year old knees are exactly that. Welcome to the club.
Lower back and shoulders can be helped hugely by being stronger. I do body weight workouts and a few moves with a couple of 5kg dumbbells, a few of times a week.
We’re talking plank, mountain climbers, bicep and triceps curls, lateral lifts… those kinds of thing.
Won’t get you hench, but will make you strong.
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Go see a physio
Get a theragun
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Tai chi. I was plagued with neck pain during and after cycling. I had suffered a compression injury years before and just thought time and degeneration had caught up with me and that was my lot.
A friend suggested tai chi. I was sceptical and reserved and felt a bit of a berk at first waving my arms around etc, but the improvement was pretty quick so that gave me impetus to continue.
It work for me by increasing my awareness of how my movements were executed ie, I learned to feel which muscles did what and concentrate on the signals the joint and muscle were sending to my brain during a limb movement. I realised that most of the time my neck and shoulders were in tension and this could be relieved by measured and mindful gentle movements.
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Any suggestions for all the aches and pains as I approach my mid-40s? My knees, lower back and shoulders are all on-and-off fucked; if it’s not one it’s the other. This is partly due to lumping kids about, and doing a pretty physical job that involves sporadic lifting of really heavy things. Neither of those are going to change any time soon, so I’m wondering what I can do to alleviate the pain in the meantime. Yoga, Pilates, swimming? All of which I’ve been interested in doing more but cannot find the time between work and family. But if I was convinced one of those things was going to make a noticeable difference I would crowbar some time into my week.
Do I see a doctor??
I’ve also never tried pain relief.