Hi @daisy17 I’m sorry to hear about your back. I came across your post while doing my own research. I’m 25 and recently slipped down a few steps when my heel missed the edge. I’m in school for ultrasound and have clinical rotations. After about 12 days of walking on it and pushing through the pain and telling myself I’d just strained a muscle, I caved and went to the urgent care. They told me I have a compressed disc and sent me to emergency ortho referral. Ortho said I had a compression fracture at T5/6 and said I looked osteopenic so I went for a bine density scan that confirmed the osteopenia. I’ll admit I’m a little concerned and frustrated due to my age. Unfortunately, I thought things like this would come with age and to be expected at some point if you fall in your later years. I never expected an injury like this in my 20’s smack dab in the middle of my program. It’s been quite frustrating and hard to manage in my clinic days. I will say, my day to day life hasn’t been affected too much. But that’s simply because I have no other option. I live alone with my dog and have things I need to do for school or I’ll flunk out. I’m not supposed to push, pull, twist, bend, or lift anything more than 3-5lbs and sit for 20 minutes of every hour, but that’s simply not feasible for me right now. I do okay until I hit a certain point in the day, usually around 1pm depending on the day, but once I hit that point nothing can make my back feel any better. For now I’m wearing a Velcro type brace but I am being fitted for a custom TCLO brace next week so I hope that will give me some more support and a few extra hours of tolerable discomfort rather than pain I have to choke down. I’m also being sent to an endocrinologist and to have an MRI done but because of school I can only schedule things like this on my one off day a week so it’s taking longer than is ideal, but all in due time. I hope both of us can find some relief and heal as we should as quickly as possible.