Six a.m.: The pain just winks at first, barely a thumbtack in an acre-wide corkboard—until I roll out of bed and try to stand. Then agony blooms just north of my butt, locking every muscle up to my shoulder blades. I drop to one knee and whisper, “Oh, God.” Nothing else to say, really, when your spine feels like it’s just been ripped out of your flesh like a tab torn off a FedEx envelope. I think, The kid. It had to be the kid. The previous evening, I had inadvertently turned my lower back into a fulcrum when I’d extended my arms and lifted my youngest son out of his high chair. I knew I’d tweaked something at the time, but it didn’t hurt much. Not like this. This is voodoo-doll pain. Ex-girlfriend-plunging-an-ice-pick-into-a-handheld-Mikey pain.Every morning, back pain erupts across the land. It’s the second-most-common reason for missing work, behind the common cold. One in six American adults lives with back pain every day, according to a recent survey by the North American Spine Society. And those who aren’t in agony at this moment probably will be in the future—the NASS estimates that 80 percent of all adults will experience… Read full this story
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