Originally Posted by
nutt
This is probably never going away. There is no fix, there is no cure.
Not true. I herniated my L5-S1 lifting some heavy servers during a datacenter move in 2002. I went through 2 years of bull**** with steroid injections, PT, pain pills, acupuncture, McKenzie, and a bunch of other crap. I finally gave up in December 2004 and had a L5-S1 Lumbar Fusion surgery to remove the disc and fuse the vertebra together. I was roadracing motorcycles back then, and I mad the first race of the season in March, just three months later. The surgery and recovery hurt like hell, but it sure fixed it. I still ride motorcycles, road bikes, mountain bikes, and occasionally run. My usual road bike rides are between 50-100 miles each weekend. So there is a fix - however it is very expensive and hurts like hell. YMMV, of course.