Hey Dr. Sean!

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I think we can all agree there's nothing safer than over-the-internet medical advice. So... I experience lower back pain after driving my NSX for any longer than an hour or so. I don't experience this in my wagon, so there's something up with my seating position. Any suggestions?
 
stretching and exercise to keep you back muscles loose and strong will go along way to allowing a comfortable seated position.
 
This forum is awesome. Free medical advice :smile:

Sean, you might want to share the PM with all of us. I get that sometime after a long drive. John is right about stretching but sometime after a long drive, even a long stretch still isn't enough.
 
add more lumbar to the seat. I did, and I can now drive 6 hours with no pain.
just release the center pad at the base. (you can reach in where the seat and the back meet and release the center pad).
add a 3/4" foam piece cut to fit and re-attached the center pad.
$2.00 in foam, 15 minutes of your time. no more lower back pain. Priceless!
I also did the passenger seat.
 
Hard corners and a few acceleration runs will work the kinks out.
 
When it starts to hurt when you're ripping down the highway, reach for the bottle of scotch in the glove compartment.

Drown your aches and pains!
 
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Aside from Dave's sage advice, here's what I told Brad.

When any symptom is aggravated by posture, there's clearly a mechanical aspect to it's cause. So in this case, the NSX seats (although excellent) aren't providing enough support to the lumbar curve (lordosis). Many, many people have sustained ligament damage to multiple areas of their spine, which allows it to shift out of its ideal alignment, and no car seat will support the spine properly when this happens.

Further, simple muscular problems typically self-resolve, heal, quickly. If a pain or symptom is persisting, especially when it comes to the spine, there is likely ligament damage, misalignment, and if enough time/degeneration has passed neurological symptoms start to develop (pinched nerve etc) preventing it from healing fully.

Therefore - get a lumbar roll for your seat and place it above your hips to support your lumbar arc.

And - if you have persisting symptoms, go see your Chiropractor for a checkup to analyze your spine for subluxation (misalignment), because if it's there, it needs to be corrected asap.
 
Its funny, I used to find the NSX seat super comfortable, suddenly, I find myself wishing for more lumbar support too...

The other thing thats starting to get to me is the curve inwards at the top of the seat, makes you sit with your shoulders forward if you're broad shouldered like me, causing shoulder pain, that "knife in the back" feeling between my spine and shoulder blade...and it isn't Dave behind me....

Sean, we should get you to come to town and give us a lecture on keeping fit enough to drive a sports car....I'm actually not joking...
 
Can do. I'll back it down from the article I wrote for Canadian Chiropractor about conditioning for race car drivers.

Stuart - your shoulder issue is the same problem I've got in the Porsche, both cup & sport seats.
 
Can do. I'll back it down from the article I wrote for Canadian Chiropractor about conditioning for race car drivers.

You had an article published in CC Magazine? WOW! You shitten me?:wink:

Stuart - your shoulder issue is the same problem I've got in the Porsche, both cup & sport seats.

Thats why I'm selling the 944T, time to get something easier on the shoulders...or at least something that will pull down eben faster lap times so I'll spend less time in the car!:biggrin:
 
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