My old Back is killing me

Once again my back has decided to remind me its back there.  Pain got bad enough last week that Friday I broke down & went to the chiropractor.  Being a little naive about chiropractic care I thought it would be crack crack & away you go feeling hopefully a little better.   Nope I got a full on exam & x-rays.  A follow up appointment was made for Monday & away I went.

Over the weekend I tried to not doing anything to make my back hurt worse.  Mostly do nothing, use some ice, &  get Amber to massage my lower back some.  Most of this helped & by this AM my back was somewhat feeling "normal" .  Normal for my back is pretty sore mostly with a constant bearable pain being present.  More on this in a bit.

My chiropractor visit started with the Dr. going over my x-rays & saying yes your back is jacked, just not that jacked.  Hopefully with some work it can be better but since I'm getting older & I've put treatment off for so long probably 90-95% is all I can ever expect.  Which right now would seem freaking awesome!

Today the Dr. used  some activator method of manipulation (seems like complete hoakem to me) & some electro stimulation ( from past use this works).  I'm happy this chiro is more PT oriented than manipulation.  After the electro stim they sprayed me with Biofreeze.  I felt better after but I'm thinking this was more electro Stim & Biofreeze (Amber has access to this at work & shes not a big fan).  That said Wednesday when I go back I think I'll skip the Biofreeze to see if there is a difference.

Several hours later & my back isn't killing me.  Maybe this course will get me to where I can not have to be crippled 80% of the time.  The immediate course of treatment is 2x/week for 3 weeks, then 1x/week for an additional 3 weeks.  When I saw this on the sheet my first thought was wow I guess my insurance does cover chiropractic (turns out it does, coincidence?) Regardless I'm going to follow the plan for a change.  After I'm out of the cripplng back pain phase I'm going to get some PT type stuff, core work, flexibility.  All things I know I need.

In fact this spring I half assed core & flexibility & I went awhile with out back pain. Go figure.  Guess its time to quit half assing & do it right.  I'll see how it goes then figure out a "training plan".  For now it looks like little to no running & limited biking.  Bang for buck that means trainer I guess.  With it being a 1000 degree seems best anyway.  Going to put a real crimp in me breaking 17:29 before I'm 40 though.