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By the Last Lesson of the Day, My Back Refuses to Straighten

I am forty-seven, and I teach at a school here in Gazipur. My mornings begin well enough. I stand through the first lessons without thinking about my back at all. By afternoon it stiffens, lesson by lesson, until standing straight in front of the class takes real effort.

Evenings are worse. At home my family sits on the floor together, and I join them slowly, lowering myself with one hand pressed to the ground. Getting up again is the hardest part of my day. Nobody can point to one injury. There was no fall, no single bad day. This stiffness crept in over years, a little at a time.

Earlier treatment eased the aching for a while, and I was grateful. But the stiffness itself stayed, and the movement I had lost did not return. So now I am looking for a physical medicine specialist in Gazipur. I want a doctor whose work is rebuilding movement gradually, with a plan that fits around teaching days. If you are searching too, the Gazipur doctor directory on DoctorBD24 is one place to start.

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Md. Ahamedur Reza

Qualifications MBBS, FCPS (Physical Medicine)
Location Uttara, Dhaka

By the Last Lesson of the Day, My Back Refuses to Straighten

She began with my school day, not with my back

At the first visit, the specialist asked me to walk her through an ordinary day. When does the stiffness start? What makes it worse? Then she watched me stand, sit on a low stool, and rise again, and noted how far my back would bend each way.

She read my earlier reports before suggesting anything. A plan built without the full picture would only guess. And mine had to fit school hours, or I would never keep it.

The plan may change my habits, but never my prescription

My medicines, prescribed by another doctor, continue exactly as prescribed. This plan does not replace any of them. It does not add a new one, and it does not quietly drop an old one. Exercise works beside my medicines, never instead of them. If one of them ever needs changing, only the doctor who prescribed it can decide that.

Short sets of movement, fitted between lessons

The plan is made of guided exercises in short sets. A few minutes before school. A short set between lessons. Floor practice in the evening, learning to sit down and rise with less strain each week. Each set is small on purpose.

Every few weeks she reviews how I move and adjusts the plan. A set that has become easy gets harder. A movement that still resists gets a different approach. Progress is slow, and she never pretended otherwise.

She keeps my other doctors in the picture

This specialist works alongside my other doctors, not in place of them. If she finds something that belongs to another kind of doctor, she says so plainly. The same directory also lists general surgeons in Gazipur, for problems of a different kind.

What I wanted to know before I began

Is this stiffness just something I must accept now?

Not without an examination. Stiffness built over years can still be measured, and movement can be rebuilt gradually. No honest doctor promises how far it will go.

How is this different from the treatment I had before?

Earlier treatment aimed at the aching. This work aims at movement itself: how the back bends, how I stand, sit, and rise.

Can the plan really fit around school hours?

That is how mine was designed. Short sets sit in the gaps of a teaching day, so the plan survives busy weeks.

Do I have to stop sitting on the floor at home?

No. Sitting down and rising become part of the practice, in stages. At first I used support. The goal is to join my family comfortably again.

What if one week feels worse than the last?

Tell her at the review, or sooner if it worries you. Bad weeks are part of the picture she plans from, and she can adjust the exercises.

Which sudden changes mean I should go to hospital that same day?

Go to hospital the same day if weakness suddenly takes one side of your body. Losing control of urine or stool is also a same-day emergency. So is a limb that will not move after a fall. Severe pain with fever belongs there that day too.

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