wow winic1, I am sorry you have it so hard with your body. Myself, I just turned 50 and I guess this- radiculopathy-or whatever it is - is Mother nature's menopausal gift to me. I am really freaked out over all of this and reading the posts here, migod you guys have it bad and I am so scared. My own mother is 86 and still plays tennis 3 times a week. All she ever had was a few months of neck pain for which the doctor prescribed valium (That was when she was 50- my age now). So I wasn't expecting this. Anyway- long story, I may have in fact had scoliosis my whole life without knowing it until now.

So I am sorry you are having it so hard but you seem to have a good attitude and that is commendable.

I went to Futrueshop today to see about the wii and the salesman interupted me before I could even finsih the sentance saying the wii is so terrible and that they will be discontinuing the balance board etc, so I need to buy it asap- that will be $300 in all for the board and the Nintendo.

winic1, can I ask you if there is an option to just stand on it and watch where the red dot marking the centre of the weight is? I don't really want to play games, I just want to stand on it and do squats. I think they have an option of just standing on it for 3 minutes? Could I just do that? I would like to just stand on it while doing work at a high table- have the tv in the background just showing where the red dot is all the time.
Do you think it can do that?


thanx