While it's good to listen to your doctor, it's also good to research all the ways to take care of your back. Chronic back pain is very, very common, and a doctor could spend all day telling you how to handle it (assuming your X rays are normal). Proper lifting, footwear, sitting, walking, even sleeping! People hurt from carrying babies or a bag on one side, sitting on a wallet in a back pocket, using a chair without feet flat on floor, running along roads instead of tracks. GENTLE exercise is best. MOIST HEAT is best - a tub soak, a heating pad. Google all the back sites. No need to write a book here.
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