Unwinding

It’s been two weeks since I started taking care of my back… and I’m bored the hell out of my skull. I miss lifting, I miss the jits. Crap.

Anyways, so far the inflammation is getting down, and I finally went out jogging on Saturday night. Mind you, it was a little trotting like an old man, but that was a major improvement. Fortunately I can do push ups and pull ups, abdominal and supermans so that keep me going.

Jumping is out of the question and I have to run carefully, though. My chiro ties me up to this table that he uses to bend me up and down (as in a reverse hyper) while applying pressure to several parts of the spine. It’s not only the lumbar area, but apparently I have a lot of scar tissue on the hip and where the femur connects to it. Also, he gets me to sit on this contraption for about 5 minutes at every session:

It is pretty weird, but it certainly works your core. Not only that, it gets you to flex and extend your hip and regain hip mobility. It’s good (though dorky looking.) This is a cat on that thing, just for the lolz.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWZKjtFUeco

Work is getting busy and I’ll be working the graveyard shift soon, so no jits for me again for a couple of months. The timing of jacking up the back couldn’t have been worse.

I finally got my x-rays on disk. Pretty wicked… and shitty. This is my neck tilted to the right. It is better now, but it is still a lot of work to be done.

Below is my lumbar leaning to the left. I have to make a conscious effort to bring my right shoulder up and extend my right oblique to relieve the pressure. Annoying shit let me tell you.

And the arrows in this one mark the disks that are giving me grief.

Patience, patience. I got to have patience to fix this. It is what it is, and resting is just a part of the game, even when the waiting sucks.