Earlier this
year retired fireman and ex-Royal Marine Adrian McGregor had something
of a medical epiphany. He'd been plagued by severe pain for 18 years
after injuring his back - and breaking a leg in several places - falling
through the floor of a burning factory.
He'd
since had endless consultations with specialists and various treatments
to little effect. Five years ago he underwent surgery for a slipped
disc, but while this helped in the short term, 'the pain gradually came
back'.
'I
saw a physiotherapist, who suggested exercises that made things worse, a
chiropractor who did nothing for me, a pain clinic that just gave me
opiate drugs that left me groggy and worried about the risk of
addiction. I even had a second operation on the slipped disc in 2014.'
The
pain remained and made sitting almost impossible. In January, Adrian
made an appointment with yet another clinician, hoping against hope that
this time it would be different.
'The
astounding thing is that it was totally different,' says Adrian, 52,
who lives in the West Midlands. For by the time he left the clinic, not
only did he understand why his back was so painful, but also how he'd
inadvertently been doing precisely the things that kept it that way.
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