About 12 years ago I experienced my first bout of sporadic back pain: the muscles in my lower back do something that makes such extreme activities as putting on my socks or putting down a cup of tea excruciating. This is one of those weeks. 😡

Your back does not like those extreme sports. Best lay off for a bit.
(I hope your back feels better soon!)

@vasta @kitt Thanks for the thoughts folks. As usual, things are improving slowly.

yeah, that’s no fun. Experienced this for the first time when I was 13-15 something, it could take me 30m to get up from my bed. Has happened now and then for my whole life until 10-15 years ago. What happened? Well, I was lucky, it turned out that the whole reason for my back pain was muscle problem, they were too weak. I started to train martial arts and one thing that happens is that I improved the strength of my muscles in the lower back/stomach area ... and ... no back pain. Glad to say that it was all caused by my laziness and not due to anything else.

@jemostrom Glad to hear that’s worked things out for you. 😀 That could well be my problem too. I notice I'm particularly liable if I’ve spent several days mostly sitting.