{"id":430,"date":"2004-05-22T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T02:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/22\/ouch\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:19:38","slug":"ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/05\/22\/ouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;ve often wondered about people when they say they pulled a back muscle by doing something simple, like getting up off a chair.  Really now, I would think, aren&#8217;t you exaggerating <em>just a bit<\/em>?  My back has been a bit tetchy of late.  It aches and feels stiff in the lower region.  I&#8217;ve been feeling fragile when I move.  Less than half an hour ago I brought a cup of tea into the living room, bent down slightly to put it on the end table, and felt a sharp pain stab my lower left back.  It was intense enough to cause me to yelp a little and my hand to shake.  My boyfriend immediately guided me to the sofa and put a heating pad under me.  I moved slightly to adjust the pillow and felt another sharp pain.  Geeze!  What happened?!<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, since I&#8217;m immobilized, I decided to search a little bit on back pain (thank goodness for laptops).  Some of my results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Muscle Pull of the Back\" href=\"http:\/\/www.1backpain.com\/backmusclepull.htm\">Muscle Pull of the Back<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsdoctor.com\/articles\/muscle.html\">That Painful Pull<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/health.yahoo.com\/health\/centers\/back_pain\/003108\">Back Pain Center<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pponline.co.uk\/encyc\/0033.htm\">Lower back pain causes<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare.ucla.edu\/pls\/lowback.htm\">UCLA Healthcare &#8212; Low Back Pain<\/a><\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping for a fast recovery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I&#8217;ve often wondered about people when they say they pulled a back muscle by doing something simple, like getting up off a chair. Really now, I would think, aren&#8217;t you exaggerating just a bit? My back has been a bit tetchy of late. It aches and feels stiff in the lower region. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12933,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/12933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}