Sounds like medieval torture but...

My dh's years of abusing his body lifting, carrying and building things have decided it's payback time. He now has a herniated disk and it's pressing on the sciatic nerve. It hurts all the way down his leg. He was referred to a pain clinic and they did shots into his spine but it didn't help. They said his next step was surgery. But he has heart problems and no one wants to deal with it. Here's where the medieval torture comes in, he found a place that treats back pain non surgically. They put him on a table that stretches him. We go once a day for 10 days and then evaluate how he's doing. He's half way through and so far it's helping!


It's funny, he's the skinny one and I was always the fat one. Usually it's the over weight one with back problems. I had a little bit of back pain before my sleeve gastrectomy, but not much really. It's gone since my vsg. At least I didn't have that side effect of obesity...