Will neck/lower back pains bar me from the military?
My dream in life is to join the military and do special operations however I need to find out now if that’s not an option. I’m a 17 year old junior in high school, I have done almost every sport and I’ve played a lot of football. My neck will hurt sometimes if I sleep funny, and my parents say I sleep on my chest with my neck to the side. It also used to hurt last year I’m football during hitting drills so I bought one of those cowboy collar neck protectors. My back bugs me a lot less but I will feel almost a tingling pain in my lower back sometimes when I’m doing yard work. It never bothered me when I was lifting constantly but I stopped for a few months and when I started back up squats started to hurt pretty bad, although that could be me using bad technique. I’ve thought of gong to a chiropractor but my dad went to one in high school and it didn’t help and my mom’s friend claims her back worsened with treatment.
So to sum everything up, here are my concerns. Will these pains prevent me from joining the military? Do I need to see a chiropractor and/or a neck doctor? If I do see a doctor about these pains will that go on a medical record the military will see? Thank you for reading all this and if you have any medical knowledge in this area, any help would be much appreciated.
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It seems this only bothers you when you either play football and or lift weights. I won’t tell you to go see a doctor or not before trying to join any branch of the military but will tell you this. The military or at least basic training by itself is very very physically demanding much much more than an hour of weight lifting or four quarters of a football game. If you experience this type of discomfort through those activities imagine a fourteen hour day of activity that will ensure these types of pains will come on early and persist as the entire day goes on with little time for recovery between lights out at 9 pm and back up at 4 for PT.
I think the least of your worries should be if this shows up on a medical records check at MEPS if you attempt to join as you should really have this looked at prior to trying to join. I am looking at this for your sake, not the militarys’ as you stand a real good chance of causing yourself some permanent lifetime damage if you cover this up and then go to basic and I don’t care which branch people think is easiest they are all physically demanding in their own way. If there is a simple remedy then so be it and who cares who sees it as it has been a problem that is now fixed and drive on to the military with confidence you aren’t going to end up permanently injured or tossed out with zero chance of returning. Get it checked and see if it can be fixed, if not then find another avenue for a career because the military will only make your physical condition worse if it is not top notch the day you ship.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:50 pmAre you stupid? If you want to join any military in any country, don’t tell them anything about any health situation. You want to go into your medical with all the right ticks in all the right boxes. The examiner won’t do a check on ‘tingly pains in your lower back.’ All they ask you to do is drop your dacks, squat a few times, turn around and lift your arms up. Apart from that there’s the usual few pushups to check if you have shoulder problems. Weight check. Colour blindness test. Urine drug test. You’ll be fine you just keep your mouth shut. They don’t want to hear some sop story of how your neck hurts when you mum watches you sleep. I’m afraid you may fail the aptitude test though.
Stop waisting your time here on Yahoo answers and take your self to the nearest recruiting centre.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:50 pmhere’s the deal, I’m not trying to be mean, but the Army doesn’t need anymore ‘broken’ Soldiers. If you are having these problems, then go to a doctor. get them fixed if they can be before joining the Army.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:50 pmyou could probably get through meps, but by the time you finished basic, you would have complicated things so bad you’d end up on profile all through AIT. they would just let you slide through, then you would get to your unit with no APFT on file. You would then try to get the problems taken care of through tricare. that would mean useless physical therapy and years of temporary profiles before you ever actually receive any real treatment. during this time, you wouldn’t be doing pt. that makes you look bad to the other soldiers in your squad. Promotion to SGT is out of the question because of the no APFT on file issue. like i said, i’m not trying to be mean, but i have seen to many times Soldiers who come to their unit on profile because of issues they claim to have had for years. If you really want to join the Army, please get to a doctor and get treatment before doing so.
I wouldn’t worry about it.
Don’t say anything to the military. And do not see a doctor. That’s the last thing you want.
Just join up and see how it goes. If it doesn’t work out, then it doesn’t work out.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:50 pmIf it hurts you enough for you to worry about it, then you probably shouldn’t sign up until you get the problems resolved. For the type of job you want to do, it requires ALOT of physical activity, carrying heavy weights, doing alot of impact movements.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:50 pmAlso, the Army will only know things about your medical records if you tell them…so if you never saw a doctor for it or you just don’t tell them, then they won’t know. BUT if you plan on doing such a thing (compromising your integrity), you will just add to the number of new guys who come in with health problems, and doing more harm than helping.
Being so young, these kinds of aches and pains just sound like regular day to day ouchies…but what do I know, I don’t feel them, you do. Good luckl