It has been enlightening listening to a spine specialist , McGill. Really changed how I think about my back, the pain and what happened. There is no such thing as an achy back, there are injuries and aggravating weakness.
seems I have stress fractures of one or two L vertebrates and a touch of a disc hernia on my left side. Ten hours a week of walking on hard footpaths, walking thru pain, with hard shoes will aggravate a weakness from prior injury or re-injure.
They seem to have been learning a lot about both the spine and pain management in recent years and a lot of the more recent information is quite different to the traditional advice. A lot of the pain seems to be caused by things like bracing in anticipation of pain, which means that learning to react differently can have major benefits. So it is not “all in your head” as it is real, physically based pain, but learning to think about the pain differently can change your physical responses and reduce the pain.
It has been enlightening listening to a spine specialist , McGill. Really changed how I think about my back, the pain and what happened. There is no such thing as an achy back, there are injuries and aggravating weakness.
seems I have stress fractures of one or two L vertebrates and a touch of a disc hernia on my left side. Ten hours a week of walking on hard footpaths, walking thru pain, with hard shoes will aggravate a weakness from prior injury or re-injure.
They seem to have been learning a lot about both the spine and pain management in recent years and a lot of the more recent information is quite different to the traditional advice. A lot of the pain seems to be caused by things like bracing in anticipation of pain, which means that learning to react differently can have major benefits. So it is not “all in your head” as it is real, physically based pain, but learning to think about the pain differently can change your physical responses and reduce the pain.
don’t worry, I’ve had a medical diagnosis on which vertebrae