Say you've signed up for the HBF Run for a Reason or the City to Surf, and training's been going well. Then, about 5 km into your usual Swan River loop, an ache starts around your kneecap. By the Kings Park stairs it's properly sore,...
Say you finally got the MRI. The report comes back full of words like "disc bulge", "protrusion", "degeneration" and "L4/5". You read it in the car park, google half of it, and by the time you get home you're wondering if you should stop lifting...
Say it started with a twinge in your lower back after a long drive home from a FIFO swing. A few days later there's a burning, electric pain running through your buttock and down the back of your leg. Sitting is awful. You've been lying...
Maybe you've had the booking page open on your phone for three days. Your back or neck still isn't right, but you keep closing the tab. You're not sure what happens when you walk in. Will they crack something? Will you get talked into twenty...
It starts as a dull ache across the tops of your shoulders by about 3pm. Then one morning you go to check your blind spot on the Canning Highway and your neck just won't turn that far. By Friday there's a headache sitting behind your...
Your alarm goes off, you swing your legs out of bed, and the first step feels like standing on a sharp stone. You hobble to the kettle. After ten minutes it eases off, so you forget about it until you stand up after lunch and...
Say your neck's been locking up every afternoon, or your lower back's been grumbling since footy preseason. You've decided to finally do something about it. Then you hit the next question: physio or chiro? Your mate swears by one, your sister by the other, and...
You bent down to grab your kid's school bag off the car floor, or lifted the washing basket, and felt your lower back go. Now it's stiff, it catches when you move, and getting out of a chair has become a whole project. Part of...