Carman back at PBS

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(04-27-2023, 09:15 AM)Sled21 Wrote: I get the most relief from Acupuncture.

I tore a muscle in my back in 2008 at my first job (I felt something detach as I lifted, one of the oddest feelings, if not the oddest {physical! lol} feeling I have ever felt in my life) and the pain was excruciating for a good 3 days and once my worker's compensation was filed (I mean, I was a part-timer at a grocery store: I didn't need it, but the company insisted), I went to a sister of my dad's oldest friend (a Chinese guy: their father was the first licensed practitioner of Acupuncture in Canada) and she did her stuff.

Well, after 4 sessions over 3 weeks, my back felt the best it had ever felt in my 18 years on this planet. I went for 2 more sessions and because I felt so good, I decided to go back to work.

Second shift back, reaggravated it.

Went back for 7 more sessions of acupuncture, didn't work this time around and I've dealt with it for the past 16 years . The pain only crops up if I do about an hour or more of standing work with my hands, without taking a break (cooking, washing dishes, gardening, etc.). Looks like the only way to deal with it going forward, would be surgery, but there's no point this long after the injury.