How I cured my lower back pain
I am a runner. I’ve been running for more than 10 years. Even went through training and running a whole marathon. Nowadays I still enjoy running although I can’t run as far as I’d like since my son can’t handle being strapped in the stroller for more than 40 minutes. I still run a few times a week. But it wasn’t always that way. 4 years ago I got injured. Plantar fasciitis. I was running, hiking, climbing too much. I got prescribed fancy schmancy orthotics. Cost: 400$. 6 months later, after a great day relaxing at a spa with my sister, I can’t get up from the restaurant’s chair. My back is fused. It no longer wants to move in any direction. What is going on? To this day, I still don’t know how it happened or why. But let me tell you what happened next and how I finally found a cure for my lower back pain. I spent the next 2 years looking for a reason, an explantation as to why this was happening to me. I stopped doing all the activities I liked. I saw all kinds of therapists, from shrinks to massages therapists to physical therapists. I consulted with the best doctors from Stanford and got steroids shots in my lower back. All to no avail. After 2 years of pain where I couldn’t run a mile or even […]