Hi John,
I grew up painting, my whole family were painters lol.
Anyways, I know of another place that has lots of people with spine troubles, and there is alot of information on SCS to be gleened from there. You might want to put a similar post as this one on that forum.
Here is the link
http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/...play.php?f=251
It is the BT1 forum, but lots of folks keep the spine forum jumping over there.