Billye,
My wife has 'spurs' on her disc's all over her spine. they've probably been there a long time- but we didn't know til an x-ray showed them when she was hospitalized for back pain and on a morphine drip for 2 days.
The docs said there was nothing to be done, surgery not indicated. Therapy probably best. WRONG !!
Magnets were her lifesaver.
She found someone who knew someone that heard of someone......etc. Long story short- Nikkon was where she wound up (its on the web). She's a RN manager & on her feet a lot. She uses the shoe inserts (claims its good for both feet & back-something to do with magnetic flow thru the iron in the blood [!?]) and wears a rectangular magnetic 'plate' about 6"x10" (some are smaller too) on her lower back. 24/7 !!- sleeping too !. There are various methods to put a layer of thin fabric (between 2 pr of undies, etc) between the magnet & skin. she just uses what's most comfortable with what she's gonna wear.
Anyway......... she went from being incapacitated & on sick leave, to working normally without much back pain at all (she doesn't complain much at all now). She doesn't have to rely on anything but the magnets. Swears by them. She's careful; about lifting and straining her back, but does all the normal grocery shop , clothes shopping .,shoe buying , etc- & carrying the packages home, that any one else can do.
Says its all about the magnets & the docs just scratch their heads (and don't have any answers).
Voilà! Magic! After about the 1st week she felt some improvement. Then gradual improvement until she doesn't even think about her back- but has a magnet therapy on her feet and back every day. Jury still out ? Not for her !
She even became a 'distributor' (costs about $100 to the Nikkon 'people')so she could get more at cost for family & friends- never 'sold' just took orders and they repaid her. She hasn't done that for a year or two. But she's been wearing those danged magnets for about 5 years, now. Just "swears by 'em".