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The Remarkable Thing That Actually Freed Me Of Back Pain
My experience with the Egoscue Method
I thought the yoga would work.
Or the acupuncture. I was really optimistic about the acupuncture.
Before that, I had high hopes for the physical therapy, hypnosis, new mattress, red light therapy, and special office chair.
It’s not that these remedies failed. Each offered some help — a brief respite from the searing low back pain that had come out of nowhere and attacked me. But none provided any lasting relief.
It was maddening.
I was a healthy person. I’d been active my whole life. Then one night, walking home from dinner, I felt a sharp pain in my lower back. The weather had turned cold suddenly, and I tensed as I walked faster to get to the car.
I barely managed to get myself to bed that night. Every movement brought a new kind of agony, the likes of which I’d never felt before.
