I've always found it interesting how problems in one area of the body start reverberating around to other areas. You limp to avoid pain in a leg and it creates extra load on the back, etc. I approach it as a fitness issue. I've had two facet rhizotomy procedures and immediately had problems elsewhere in the back until I slowly exercised it away. I attributed the problems to the fact that I could now move in ways I couldn't before and quickly irritated areas that had weakened from lack of exercise.