Yesterday I ordered a new mid-back confort chair and a better desk. I will put an electric chair massager on the chair for when I do my work. I think this will help a little more.

Good luck to all
,Mike

I suggest considering acupuncture along with physical therapy. It helped my herniated neck disk. At the risk of sounding like a spammer, consider two pillows I invented, the SquidFace and ComfyRest pillows, that alleviate my neck disk problem when the pain reappears. Lying on my back or facedown it corrects the herniation and alleviates the pain. It helps people with back pain also. It is strange but it works wonders. Bob

Where do you get these pillows? I have cervical stenosis, with pain even after my surgery a year ago, and I think I've got just about every special pillow ever made, and half the massage cushions ever made, but none of them works perfectly and I'm always looking for more.

I didn't think anyone could get a laser for home use. They are dangerous at therapeutic strengths? Also, what is causing your pain? I don't know if I read carefully enough, but it seemed like I never saw a posting saying what is wrong with you.
I'm a firm believer in getting a diagnosis before I treat.
It's also true that when they go out and x-ray backs at random, they find enough slipped discs and stenosis to cause major symptoms in 50% of adults, but much much less than 50% have symptoms(problems). It's also true that NOT treating some problems can cause other, chronic problems.
Just a reminder
Jane
(P.S. I've been eating natural foods (including steak) and almost 100% whole only grains since 1965 and think many 'alternative' therapies are great)

Yea lasers are dangerous if you get one be carful. Your right I may not have posted it or posted in a few pages back so here is what I got:
T-2, T3 hereation
T3, T4 herneation
L5-S1 herneation
Some kind of undianosed ligament damage in my neck which cause me great pain. I got this all in the military so the VA has me covered.

I'm 24 years old 170lb's and very healthy otherwise. I also have a wife and kid who are very supportive and I study acupuncture and oriental medicine.

Orthipedic adjustments, that's right not many orthipedic doctors do it but since I have one as an instructor he is doing it for my back three times a week and it is helping.

THIS IS NOT LIKE A CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENT!

The back is given a swedish type of massage to warm it up then the vertibra are slowly pushed into aligment.

Correction that is OSTEOPATHIC adjustments. I sometimes I get the two mixed up but my professor corrected me the other day. He also said the only type of DO's who will do the full treatment are DO's who don't really care about the money because this treatment takes a lot of time.

TREATMENT
This is a just about a one hour treatment thirty minutes on the prat of the massage therapist than 15-30 on the part of the DO. The DO should have a massage therapist do the fist part which is basically a sweadish massage for him then he will come in and take over the massage only now he is also pushing the vertibrea back into allignment. You need to get this three times a week or better if you are in pain. Also SOME massage therapist know how to do this and call is myfacial release. Cation if you go with a massage therapis make sure they leared this from a DO or they can actually make you worse.

I know I am very lucky to have a DO doing this for me.

May God bless you all and I pray with all my heart that whoever is reading this uses it to avoid the knife and live a happy life.

,Mike

Correction that is OSTEOPATHIC adjustments. I sometimes I get the two mixed up but my professor corrected me the other day. He also said the only type of DO's who will do the full treatment are DO's who don't really care about the money because this treatment takes a lot of time.

TREATMENT
This is a just about a one hour treatment thirty minutes on the prat of the massage therapist than 15-30 on the part of the DO. The DO should have a massage therapist do the fist part which is basically a sweadish massage for him then he will come in and take over the massage only now he is also pushing the vertibrea back into allignment. You need to get this three times a week or better if you are in pain. Also SOME massage therapist know how to do this and call is myfacial release. Cation if you go with a massage therapis make sure they leared this from a DO or they can actually make you worse.

I know I am very lucky to have a DO doing this for me.

May God bless you all and I pray with all my heart that whoever is reading this uses it to avoid the knife and live a happy life.

,Mike

My back pain is subsiding though my neck is still in shambles.

Recently bought a traction device that hangs me from my waste rather than my feet. I use it for a total of 20-25 minutes a day.

,Mike

BTW if anyone else knows some cool trick to relieve the pain and fix the problem post them here.

I have been improving every day little by little. I recently bought a new mattress and box spring. That was a great move and the new yoga DVD I bought I really like, at the end I fall asleep it's called back care yoga if anyone is interested. The pain in my mid-upper back has went down significantly. Though I am still at 7 treatments a week.

,Mike