Thursday, Jan 12, 2023 at 15:57
My first suggestion is to have your conditions correctly diagnosed. Jumping to the incorrect solution will only create more problems. You need to understand the causal relationships before getting a solution(s) that works for each of you separately.
A personal example would be when I experienced severe back pain suddenly and only after around 30" of driving. My wife already has a badly damaged lower spine. Car at the time had excellent seating.
A trip to my physio found two problems, one with my lower spine and another where the sciatic nerve joins with the hamstring. Both need on going treatment but from the seating perspective two separate fixes as
well. First was to go to a specialist chair seating
shop and get some memory foam cut in a specific way as required by my physio. Second solution was to make physical adjustments to the base of the
seat to bring it past completely level, almost all cars
seat base cants backwards, and then using the wedge to take the pressure of my lower back. That helped greatly and succeeded thanks to specialist advice on what the problem was and how it could be remedied while driving.
We changed over cars a couple of years ago and purchased one with full electric
seat adjustments which has been so good we no longer need the memory foam wedges. This years trip was 14,500km through the NT, Gulf Country,
Cape York and back to
Adelaide towing our AOR Matrix over some pretty ordinary roads. Neither of us had a problem on any day of travel, always feeling relaxed and pain free.
Rob
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Follow Up By: Member - Alan P3 - Thursday, Jan 12, 2023 at 17:06
Thursday, Jan 12, 2023 at 17:06
Hello Rob,
Thanks so much for going to the trouble of recounting your experiences.
We will go along these lines first and see how we go.
Regards,
Alan P.
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