"Curing Arthritis Naturally with Chinese Medicine" http://bluepoppy.com/cfwebstore/ (books/ books for the layperson)
I broke a disc in mine and live with pain too,but it's tolerable. When it becomes intolerable,I have a chiro in Visalia ,Cal that I consider the best. I've gone in there supported by a friend on each side with involuntary tears coming because of the pain. I still keep roofing ,because if I don't I'd probably freeze up. I too ,used to be 6' 3" but have shrunk some. I think we americans work so hard that it's pretty common to have bad backs. Good luck,man ---hope you're fixable without the knife.
i think it's better to hope that there is nothing scary in there rather than hoping for a potentially faulty MRI...
... and even better hope that they do accidentally give him a sex change operation, which it turns out he just LOVES, and then he goes to vegas and starts doing a carmen miranda impersonation, only with more fruit ...and not only does he make a million dollars and appears on the cover of "play girl", miraculously wearing high heels cures his back problem
Good luck with your test. Hopefully if there is something there it shall pick it up and you will be able to have it rectified.
Glad to hear it's just muscles. When you wrote swelling and pain in your back I thought of kidneys, inflammation of joints, skin deformation, infection...you get the point.
Gave it up after my first trick. You see tigers don't pay up, and when I called up my pimp, turns out he was scared of tigers.