Hi Tee,

ah, it’s called sliding vertebra it’s a different thing and has a very similar latin name aand yes I mixed it up. 😉

My pain wasn’t so unbearable that I would need a cortisol injection

Mine either the doctor pushed me to do it after 2 Months. I needed the insurance money. Hard to say how much in numbers it was. It was very dependent on my mood and other needs and how I could meet them.

Yeah, the bigger the distance between the load and your core, the bigger the stress on your spine. I can do much less physical work, even house work, than before, and that’s something I am not happy about either :/

I noticed that too, it’s affecting me rather on the ‘I can’t ride rails in the snowpark every day’ and ‘I don’t feel like jumping stairs with the skateboard level’. If I can accept it it’s easy. I get it that it’s peanuts too not being able to ski at all and needing more breaks during housework.

Yeah, don’t push yourself. Every trainer who has experience with spinal injury will tell you not to push yourself. Maybe a little, till the pain is 3-4, but never beyond that, because that’s when the inflammation starts and you’re doing yourself more harm than good.

Thanks, it’s good to have read that. It will support my future decisions.

Yeah.. but do be careful with certain moves though. Are you still skating?

Yes, mostly small half pipes. Many of the movement’s I do some doctors would not approve. I actually think it’s a bit more resilient or that I get used to feeling it.

So now when it hurts, it hurts on both sides, though more on the left.

Do you have more outward rotation on one side? (while laying and looking at the feet one small toe is closer to the ground usually)

Another question how would you differ chronic and non-chronic pain?